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Wimbledon, the day when the players make their move as the business end | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
approaches. But what is the state of play as it stands. First, the women. | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
A famous five-time winner has gone and so has the number two seed. The | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
favourite now is the 2004 Queen. But challenges wait. As for the men, | :01:09. | :01:18. | |
still in the draw is a magnificent seven time champion. A two-time | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
king. 2011's main man. And of course, last year's hero. Andy | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
Murray's defence has been peerless so far, but the big three loom. | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
Today, he plays for a place in the quarterfinals, as do many of the | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
remaining men and women left in the draw. Today, prepare for a feast of | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
tennis. Welcome to week two of Wimbledon 2014. | :01:52. | :02:06. | |
Big crowds again, no surprises. It is one of the most popular days of | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
the Championships with so many singles matches taking place on the | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
outside courts. The weather singles matches taking place on the | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
outside courts. The is set fair as well. The slightest chance of a | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
shower. Andy Murray will be back on court today, on Centre Court. He | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
lost 32 games last year in the first week, just 19 this year. No wonder | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
we are all looking so relaxed. He is second on Centre Court. | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
We will see Sabine Lisicki, last year's runner-up. She won her first | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
set last night against Ana Ivanovic. That match continues. | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
Caroline Wozniacki will be on court 12 today. | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
Agnieszka Radwanska is in a playful mood this morning. Petra Kvitova is | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
up against Shuai Peng. Stan Wawrinka is making his way back from the | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
practice courts. He plays the third round match today on Court Two. | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
practice courts. He plays the third Grigor Dimitrov is also in action. | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
Ana Ivanovic was not happy on Court One last night. It was getting dark. | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
She is back there again today. We will be keeping an eye on this young | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
lady, it Eugenie Bouchard from Canada. One of the rising stars of | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
the game. Talking of the weather, that is the view at the moment. | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
Glorious weather conditions. Not too hot at Wimbledon. We have | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
third-round and fourth-round matches to enjoy on this second Monday, | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
often called Magic Monday. Play gets underway on the outside courts very | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
soon. Centre and number one courts start at one o'clock. First up is | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
Alize Cornet, the giant killer. She put out Serena Williams. | :03:56. | :04:17. | |
Ana Ivanovic has lost the opening set from her match on Saturday. They | :04:18. | :04:29. | |
are back out today. Angelique Kerber, the runner-up at Eastbourne | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
is up against Maria Sharapova. Players getting underway very soon. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
On Court Number Two, Stan Wawrinka will be up against Denis Istomin | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
very soon. You can watch that match on the red button. | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
Over on court 12, we were expecting to see Madison Keys out there but we | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
will tell you more about her in a moment. But it is Caroline Wozniacki | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
up against Barbra Zahlavova Strycova from the Czech Republic. That is | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
also on the red button. Over on Court Three, Feliciano Lopez | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
who was a finalist at Queen 's club and a winner, he is up against | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
another of the big servers. We know a lot about him, John Isner. We will | :05:24. | :05:32. | |
be heading out to court eight very soon to see this one on BBC Two, | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
Simone Bolelli up against Kei Nishikori. They are tied at three | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
games all in the fifth set. Tracy is here. This day is | :05:40. | :05:51. | |
wonderful, the second Monday. Anyone who is anyone is on board today. | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
Absolutely. It is always the most magical day in tennis. We did not | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
get some match has finished on Saturday but everybody is out there. | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
Know Roger or Rafa. That whole section of the draw is being held | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
over two tomorrow. Absolutely. It will make it little bit difficult | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
for some players because on the mend's side there might be some men | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
who have to play three days in a row which is very physically demanding | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
when they have to play five sets. On the winning's side, they could play | :06:31. | :06:40. | |
four days in a row. It is very physically demanding and emotionally | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
demanding. In a Grand Slam, you are used to a day. The top half of the | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
draw include Novak Djokovic Andy Murray, they get to have a nice day | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
off and come back tomorrow. It is an advantage top half. Absolutely but | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
know that Djokovic has his hands full against Tsonga. He played a | :07:00. | :07:09. | |
terrific match in the last round. Joe knows his way around a grass | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
court. He can be so dangerous. Novak has beaten him the last ten times. | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
If Jo-Wilfried is on, he can beat anyone. He is so aggressive and | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
relentless at coming forward. What about Andy's opponent? He is very | :07:32. | :07:41. | |
tall! He is six foot eight. He looks 610! His serve is huge. What is | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
difficult to get used to lose the trajectory of the ball. Andy is one | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
of the best returners in the game. Because Andy has so much | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
versatility, he will be able to get the ball low with the slices and get | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
it below the level of his knees. Kevin Anderson has beaten Andy on | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
hard. It is different on grass. Andy is on a 16 match run here at the All | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
England Club, dating back to the Olympics in 2012. He is feeling so | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
much confidence. Anderson has beaten him but his record against the big | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
servers is rated, against players like Isner. You feel that Kevin | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
Anderson will move better. That is what he has worked on this year. | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
Kevin Anderson is having the career year of his life. He has improved | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
his movement. He has won many more matches this year. Andy knows this | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
can be a dangerous opponent. But again, I think Andy is playing so | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
well. He is second on Centre Court. Madison Keys was the last American | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
left in the draw but now she has gone because this actually happened | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
on Saturday night. This was 9:30pm at night. She already had her right | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
leg strapped. Now the left leg was injured and she called for the | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
trainer. She won the Eastbourne tournament and had so many matches | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
and had 3-set matches here as well. She had the trainer on and the | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
medical time-out. This is getting dark at this stage. It has gone | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
beyond 930 PM. They asked her to play one more game. You could see | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
she could barely put any weight on the leg. At six games all they said | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
it was it for the night. No surprise, you could hardly see | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
anything out there. Look at that! You need a head lamp to play. A good | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
thing she was 19, she could see the ball a bit better. She looked so | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
impressive that is born. She has a huge future on grass. -- she was | :10:00. | :10:08. | |
very impressive at Eastbourne. We have been predicting great things | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
for Madison. She is really learning how to construct points better. This | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
is an interesting dynamic. She had lost the first set. We thought she | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
was going to serve it out and then she gets the other leg injured. | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
Berry disappointing but overall, I think she will be very positive with | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
what has happened in this grass court season. She is only 19 so she | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
has a bright future. She certainly does. Talking bright futures, there | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
is one for Eugenie Bouchard. Li McKenzie -- Lee McKenzie is by the | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
practice courts. She's going through the motions of final practice. There | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
is nothing about going through the motions with Eugenie Bouchard. It is | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
focused, planned and very like Maria Sharapova who incidentally, happens | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
to be her rival. Her formula she seems to be following about how to | :11:16. | :11:25. | |
manage high profile attractive young tennis player. All the sponsors want | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
her to have their logos on her shirt. It is easy to forget she is | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
only 20 years old. She stayed in the juniors until her last year because | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
she wanted to win a junior title which he did on the singles and | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
doubles. She has a taste of the big courts. She has a very solid and | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
supportive team around her. Her mum travels with her a lot. Head coach | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
has been with person she was 12 years old. She has recently taken on | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
a top fitness trainer. She knows exactly what she wants and when she | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
was nine she decided she wanted to be a tennis player and be number one | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
was nine she decided she wanted to be a tennis player and be number and | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
to be honest with you, that is where she is heading. | :12:15. | :12:14. | |
to be honest with you, that is where she We have a great match ahead of | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
us. We really do have a great match | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
ahead of us. Her army, there are a lot of them, she has so many fans | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
around the world. She got to the semifinals at the Australian Open, | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
followed it up with the semifinals at the French Open, she knows where | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
she is going. She set her goals. Sam hit on it nicely. She reminds me of | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
Maria Sharapova. She has a big game. She has a massive serve, moves well, | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
is so aggressive. I practised next to her and she spent a lot of time | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
on her return of serve. There were balls flying back and forth. She is | :13:00. | :13:08. | |
focused on the next shot. She has so many distractions. She did not | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
expect to play Alize Cornet today. She was expecting to play Serena | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
Williams but she is a tough customer. How did your practice | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
session go? I practised with Lindsay. We did not want to overdo | :13:24. | :13:32. | |
it! Alize Cornet, she mentioned -- you mentioned her, she beat Serena | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
Williams. Serena did not look like the old Serena. She wasn't Serena. | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
She had three aces. We are used to her when she's struggling with the | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
rest of the game. She had just about the same number of winners as Alize | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
Cornet. We are used to Serena being able to elevate on grass. She is | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
normally smooth and she was not when she played Alize. Alize said she had | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
beaten her before. When she went out there, she felt confidence. Serena | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
not getting past the fourth round of a Grand Slam this year, I just | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
wonder if that locker room affect, when players are already intimidated | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
by her, whether she has lost a bit of that. Only the second time she's | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
in the fourth round of a Grand Slam, I wonder whether Bouchard might be | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
more aggressive for her? It is an interesting matchup. She played once | :14:31. | :14:39. | |
on clay. Alize Cornet won that one match. A really different opponent | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
that she will be facing today. Corn it does not have a massive serve but | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
she gets so many balls back and play. She threw in some slices to | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
change place and that could be effective. We will see that at one | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
o'clock on Centre Court. There is a match in the fifth and final set | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
that we are going to join. Here is Kei Nishikori up against Simone | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
Bolelli. Let's join this one with Jason Goodall and Nick Mullins. | :15:08. | :15:22. | |
This is a match which called time at around 915 PM on Saturday evening. | :15:23. | :15:32. | |
These two decided to suspend hostilities for 24 hours or so. | :15:33. | :16:28. | |
Bolelli immediately picking up from the rhythm he had on Saturday | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
evening. We saw him play some superb aggressive tennis. The forehand is a | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
little weaker from a technical perspective. He can generate more | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
pace with that shot. Bolelli is better when he can | :16:43. | :17:22. | |
dictate play. There is Bolelli's Davis Cup | :17:23. | :18:02. | |
captain. nervous here. Bolelli needs to make | :18:03. | :18:45. | |
the most of that. is superb. The base you are hitting | :18:46. | :20:04. | |
from has to be perfect and it was. Much more of a work-out than he | :20:05. | :20:44. | |
would have ideally wanted on this Monday morning but the 24-year-old | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
Japanese, who really is enjoying the best year of his career so far, is | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
on the board at the start of the second week. He broke into the | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
world's top ten for the first time earlier this year. He beat Roger | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
Federer in Miami. Became the clay-court champion in Barcelona and | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
he really should have beaten Rafael Nadal in the final in Madrid but for | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
the back problem he had. Nadal was finding it tough to win points. Few | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
players have been able to dominate Nadal like Nishikori did. The only | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
other player was perhaps Novak Djokovic. That is where Michael | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
Chang, who has had a positive influence on Nishikori this season, | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
is better prepared emotionally to work the point is little longer. He | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
understands the difference between defending and attacking on a clay | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
court. He was not as aggressive as I thought he was going to be. | :21:41. | :22:26. | |
The return is a little better of the backhand. | :22:27. | :23:06. | |
Bolelli thought he had blown his chance to be here this year when he | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
lost in the final round of qualifying at Roehampton but he got | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
a break as a lucky loser replacing for who pulled out of the main draw. | :23:17. | :23:35. | |
The last lucky loser to reach the third round was him. He was beaten a | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
couple of years ago by Richard Gasquet. The last lucky loser to | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
reach the fourth round, the bumper sized Belgian Dick Norman back in | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
95. Bolelli is more comfortable coming | :23:53. | :24:38. | |
underneath the backhand. I'm sure if the Japanese supporters | :24:39. | :25:16. | |
had a choice, they would have stayed here all day yesterday to make sure | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
they had a seat. They sat on court 18 through part of a win in's match | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
in their coats staving off the rain, determined to watch their | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
hero, and then the court was switched. They flew down the hill. | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
If you are caught in the stampede, you were very unfortunate. | :25:40. | :26:31. | |
Brilliant. The first three games since the resumption, all won by the | :26:32. | :26:42. | |
server, Nishikori. SUE BARKER: It was so entertaining | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
on Saturday evening and it is living up to the billing once again. We are | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
in for a great finish out here on Caught eight. Other matches are | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
available. This one on the red button, Stan Wawrinka and Denis | :26:59. | :26:59. | |
Istomin. Caroline Wozniacki also on the red | :27:00. | :27:14. | |
button. She is in trouble against Strycova. | :27:15. | :27:29. | |
On Court Three, Feliciano Lopez and John Isner. You can follow that on | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
line. That is the other third-round match to be completed. That | :27:37. | :27:38. | |
line. That is the other third-round is happening elsewhere. Back we go. | :27:39. | :27:50. | |
The 10th seed, just a game away. This has been an arm wrestle from | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
start to finish. That is why Bolelli is so good. Once | :27:55. | :28:39. | |
he can control the rally he has won the vast majority of points. Very | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
comfortable stepping inside the baseline. A lovely technique moving | :28:45. | :28:46. | |
through the volley. A joy to watch. There is so much more player -- | :28:47. | :29:19. | |
pressure on the players serving second. | :29:20. | :29:57. | |
service game for the entire match so far. -- largely in control. That is | :29:58. | :30:09. | |
not what is going on in his head at the moment. | :30:10. | :30:26. | |
That backhand return is usually one of his strongest assets. Bolelli | :30:27. | :30:39. | |
missed a couple of backhands in this game so I do not know why he did not | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
return crosscourt, high percentage play, he had a chance of making it. | :30:45. | :31:00. | |
A good indication of how tight both players game. -- are this game. | :31:01. | :31:54. | |
Italian nerves, which are entirely understandable. One of this year's | :31:55. | :32:02. | |
looking losers is on the verge of achieving here. -- lucky. | :32:03. | :32:31. | |
The court time has lasted three hours and 12 minutes. In reality, it | :32:32. | :32:39. | |
has spread itself over three days. This is much point for the 10th | :32:40. | :32:41. | |
seed. -- match point. A contest that started on Saturday | :32:42. | :33:05. | |
tea-time, it reaches its conclusion on Monday lunchtime. And Japan's big | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
noise, the best player they have at the moment, Kei Nishikori, is into | :33:11. | :33:18. | |
the fourth round and the second week proper. He has finally seen off the | :33:19. | :33:25. | |
challenge of the Italian unlucky loser Simone Bolelli. Such a nice | :33:26. | :33:33. | |
reaction from Nishikori. For Bolelli, problems with his wrist and | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
coming back from surgery, he will be disappointed he could not make more | :33:38. | :33:41. | |
of the opportunities at the end of the fourth set, break points in the | :33:42. | :33:47. | |
fifth set. Nishikori is safely through and he has plenty of tennis | :33:48. | :33:52. | |
still to play in the Championships. Always entertaining tennis, great to | :33:53. | :34:02. | |
watch Kei Nishikori. And he will be back on court tomorrow. Stanislas | :34:03. | :34:05. | |
Rinker has started his match on Court Number Two -- Stanislas | :34:06. | :34:13. | |
Wawrinka. Against Denis Istomin. That match is on the red button. | :34:14. | :34:19. | |
Also on the red button, Felicity Arnaud Lopez is enjoying such good | :34:20. | :34:25. | |
form on the grass court this summer. -- Felicity Arnaud Lopez. He is | :34:26. | :34:31. | |
playing big server John Isner. For-all. That is on the red button. | :34:32. | :34:38. | |
-- four. We are heading to Court 12, it Caroline Wozniacki is in | :34:39. | :34:43. | |
trouble, she is down four games against one against the player that | :34:44. | :34:48. | |
put out we know. So the 16th seed is in trouble. -- Li Na. | :34:49. | :35:00. | |
There will be a certain amount of tension between the years at the | :35:01. | :35:06. | |
moment, being on the wrong end of the wrong break -- the years. It | :35:07. | :35:18. | |
looks more, doesn't it, Liz? That is the back of the court. Somebody high | :35:19. | :35:33. | |
up on the stand to the left. Somebody not feeling great at this | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
moment, it seems. The steward is there, as ever, to deal with the | :35:39. | :35:41. | |
problem. It will be Caroline Wozniacki to | :35:42. | :35:54. | |
serve. That is possibly the worst shot | :35:55. | :36:21. | |
Barbora Zahlavova Strycova has played at this match so far. | :36:22. | :36:35. | |
It was not outside the line, but the inside. It was close. She does not | :36:36. | :36:44. | |
like the return of serve. We do not have Hawk-eye, we have to | :36:45. | :36:48. | |
do it the old-fashioned way. That is the umpire's way. | :36:49. | :37:15. | |
The backhand is the trademark of Wozniacki. She does a much better | :37:16. | :37:24. | |
job of generating pace from the backhand side than the forehand | :37:25. | :37:29. | |
side. The forehand, she has a harder time flattening that aside out. -- | :37:30. | :37:36. | |
that side. The players have been slightly disturbed by the problem in | :37:37. | :37:37. | |
the stand. Caroline's dad, the gentleman on the | :37:38. | :38:14. | |
right in the blue, in the stand. Various other cultures -- coaches | :38:15. | :38:21. | |
have helped in her career but her dad has always been there. | :38:22. | :38:28. | |
Strycova, 2-4. I will rephrase that, for-2. She is | :38:29. | :38:47. | |
reading. -- four. She is leading. After a problem over a call, she | :38:48. | :38:54. | |
played two shots in the last game. And that is not a great start to | :38:55. | :39:00. | |
this game. Wozniacki will be on her toes. | :39:01. | :39:21. | |
She has good versatility on that backhand side, Strycova. Good | :39:22. | :39:29. | |
variety as well. She comes in and this is a nice touch. Just landing | :39:30. | :39:32. | |
very short. No chance for Wozniacki. That is exactly the kind of point | :39:33. | :40:15. | |
Caroline Wozniacki is so well-known for, moving her opponent round, | :40:16. | :40:16. | |
drawing them nearer. This is the variety I was talking | :40:17. | :40:48. | |
about. To be able to serve and volley, 76 mph but placed perfectly. | :40:49. | :40:57. | |
Right in the corner. She has been successful just about every time she | :40:58. | :40:58. | |
has come in. There was a moment in that rally | :40:59. | :42:18. | |
where Wozniacki had such a chance to go in and folly. She did not hit the | :42:19. | :42:23. | |
forehand hard enough and she paid the price -- volley. | :42:24. | :43:11. | |
UMPIRE: miss Strycova leads. New balls, please. | :43:12. | :43:24. | |
She certainly has had a very good half an hour on this court. That is | :43:25. | :43:38. | |
her coach on the right. He will be very happy with her. She is playing | :43:39. | :43:45. | |
a better all court game. 10-3 in favour of that lady on the screen. | :43:46. | :43:52. | |
Being more creative, she is coming in a lot more. She has made more | :43:53. | :43:57. | |
unforced errors but also she has made more winners. Nine of 11 net | :43:58. | :44:05. | |
points have been won. She certainly looks much more | :44:06. | :44:15. | |
comfortable, which is easier when you are in the lead and you started | :44:16. | :44:26. | |
well at the early wake. -- break. Wozniacki, 16th seed, finds herself | :44:27. | :44:31. | |
serving to stay in this opening set. New set of balls. Providing, she | :44:32. | :44:40. | |
will hope, better performance from her. | :44:41. | :44:44. | |
That is too good point --. First serve, 90 mph. Strycova moves on the | :44:45. | :44:59. | |
angle, she can move parallel to the baseline, so she cut off the angle | :45:00. | :45:01. | |
on the serve. Not good enough. Caroline Wozniacki | :45:02. | :45:44. | |
hit it straight back. This was the attempted folly, it was not played | :45:45. | :45:51. | |
well enough -- volley. Wozniacki heading straight back to her | :45:52. | :45:55. | |
opponent. Just apologising afterwards. | :45:56. | :46:02. | |
It is quite often that she does not seem to go down the line if there is | :46:03. | :46:10. | |
an option of going across court. You could have got a truck down, there | :46:11. | :46:13. | |
was so much space! Strycova is being aggressive and | :46:14. | :46:37. | |
Caroline Wozniacki is being wrong-footed. But she is being | :46:38. | :46:43. | |
rewarded, she is being more aggressive, she is coming in more | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
and she has big up off the ground and Wozniacki -- bigger. Wozniacki | :46:48. | :46:53. | |
has questions to answer here, this is a big point. | :46:54. | :47:07. | |
Set point. Strycova, from the Czech Republic. | :47:08. | :47:45. | |
She has been the boss from the word go. She has a set in her pocket. | :47:46. | :48:02. | |
Sue Barker: It looks like she will cause another big upset. We will | :48:03. | :48:05. | |
keep you up-to-date. So much happening on the second Monday and | :48:06. | :48:09. | |
these are some of the players that will feature this afternoon. | :48:10. | :48:16. | |
So far, this Wimbledon, Andy Murray has been playing like a champion but | :48:17. | :48:21. | |
today he faces big serving Kevin and on who is in the best form of his | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
career. Queen's champion Grigor Dimitrov is another player who has | :48:28. | :48:31. | |
had a great year and the 11th seed or fancy his chances against | :48:32. | :48:36. | |
Leonardo Mayer who is in the fourth round of the Grand Slam for the four | :48:37. | :48:42. | |
-- for the first time. Serena Williams was knocked out on Saturday | :48:43. | :48:48. | |
by Alize Cornet but 19 Wozniacki prove another tough challenge -- | :48:49. | :48:53. | |
Eugenie Bouchard. Ana Ivanovic has yet to complete her for -- to | :48:54. | :48:59. | |
complete her match. She was a runner up to Sabine Lisicki last year. It | :49:00. | :49:04. | |
is more than five years since Novak Djokovic failed to reach the final | :49:05. | :49:08. | |
eight of a Grand Slam but Jo-Wilfried Tsonga knows his way | :49:09. | :49:13. | |
round these courts, he is a two time semifinalist here. Those are on the | :49:14. | :49:21. | |
show courts but so much action here on the second Monday. Stanislas | :49:22. | :49:25. | |
Wawrinka, on Court Two macro, a third-round match. Court three is | :49:26. | :49:32. | |
also on the red button and no surprise that between these two big | :49:33. | :49:36. | |
servers, the set will be decided by a tie-break. Back to Court 12. Can | :49:37. | :49:51. | |
she solve the problems? That was a little horrid. -- | :49:52. | :50:05. | |
hurried. That is the first set she has lost | :50:06. | :50:59. | |
at these championships. I think you can say that she is up | :51:00. | :51:40. | |
for this. Her father, so often, Wozniacki has been in the position | :51:41. | :51:44. | |
to make the breakthrough and has not been able to take it, my remark | :51:45. | :51:49. | |
about the father. It is looking a lot that way again. | :51:50. | :52:40. | |
That is the coach, Jarreau and Adams. -- to Rome. | :52:41. | :53:28. | |
Difficulty with Wozniacki on a point like this is she wants to hit the | :53:29. | :53:35. | |
backhand but she weaves the court so open on her backhand side. -- she | :53:36. | :53:40. | |
leaves. Most people would hit a forehand but Wozniacki is desperate | :53:41. | :53:41. | |
to hit a backhand. Game point. I do not think it is too unkind to | :53:42. | :54:05. | |
say that she really is exposing the limitations of Wozniacki. | :54:06. | :54:09. | |
Absolutely, the better player here is the one creating pace off the | :54:10. | :54:12. | |
ground, who is the one creating pace off the | :54:13. | :54:15. | |
and folly, to slice and come in, drop shots, more variety -- serve | :54:16. | :54:23. | |
and volley. Caroline Wozniacki has got to play in the set a type of | :54:24. | :54:28. | |
game she really does not want to play but she will be forced to play | :54:29. | :54:33. | |
if she is going to find her way back into this match, which is much more | :54:34. | :54:35. | |
aggressively. That forehand is too short. Just | :54:36. | :55:39. | |
inviting her opponent to the net. Caroline Wozniacki normally keeps | :55:40. | :55:44. | |
tremendous depth because she does not have the pace on that side but | :55:45. | :55:48. | |
she does use the court very well normally, not the case so far in | :55:49. | :55:51. | |
this match today. That will do her a little good. The | :55:52. | :56:49. | |
first time she has had her opponent on the run. Yes, this is what | :56:50. | :56:54. | |
Wozniacki needs, more points like this. | :56:55. | :57:40. | |
Better I some amount. -- I some amount. | :57:41. | :58:37. | |
This forehand just caught the line. She had a good angle on it. | :58:38. | :59:02. | |
That is a tremendous backhand. She had all the time in the world. | :59:03. | :59:10. | |
Excellent preparation, a lot of steps, it could have gone either | :59:11. | :59:16. | |
way. Wozniacki thought that was going across court. | :59:17. | :00:17. | |
Sue Barker: We will be back on Court 12 to follow this much in a moment, | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
but plenty is happening elsewhere. Including a victory for the 23rd | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
seed, Lucie Safarova of the Czech republic. She beat Tereza Smitkova. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
Only on Court 4 28 minutes. the 10th seed, this match held over | :00:39. | :01:11. | |
from Saturday, he defeated Simone Bolelli. This exciting talent from | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
Japan is through to the fourth round. A couple of results | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
Japan is through to the fourth round. A from early here on Monday. | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
Let's head back to Court 12. -- a couple of results from early here on | :01:31. | :01:31. | |
Monday. She turned defence into attack in | :01:32. | :02:27. | |
that point. Looking to attack all the time. | :02:28. | :03:05. | |
Strycova doing a The body language from dad says it | :03:06. | :03:42. | |
all, unimpressed. Too good. A beautiful return of | :03:43. | :04:26. | |
serve. The giant-killing from the other day | :04:27. | :04:50. | |
from Li Na is continuing on Court 12. Li Na said she had not played | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
enough tennis on grass. She did not go to Eastbourne. Wozniacki played | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
well at Eastbourne but cannot get into the contest. | :05:00. | :05:11. | |
They have been few and far between, the winners. | :05:12. | :06:10. | |
Nearer and nearer the baseline, nearer and nearer the net, a point | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
for the check. She just cannot unravel. Wozniacki cannot solve the | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
problem here. She has only had one break point. That came in the first | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
game of the match. Double fault number two. Wozniacki | :06:28. | :07:05. | |
is yet serve one. Caroline Wozniacki has only served three double faults | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
in the entire tournament. She was having a conversation with | :07:08. | :07:45. | |
the umpire. I'm not sure what it was about. | :07:46. | :07:54. | |
That is better depth. It has been a long time between drinks firm | :07:55. | :08:04. | |
Caroline Wozniacki. That has been the story of the day | :08:05. | :09:43. | |
for Wozniacki. When you think she's hitting the ball a bit better, just | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
missing the line. chances. She really has to take this | :09:46. | :11:28. | |
point. There was a foot fault call as well | :11:29. | :11:42. | |
as the fault. SUE BARKER: The former world number | :11:43. | :12:12. | |
one fighting back there. We will be back on court in a moment but a lot | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
is happening here on Monday. Denis Istomin is a set and four games | :12:18. | :12:26. | |
down. He has had the doctor on court. He said he was feeling | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
lethargic. In trouble and feeling unwell so it is all going | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
Wawrinka's way. And Wawrinka is now down. It is all happening out on | :12:37. | :12:47. | |
Court Two. Stan is up. If you want to watch that match it is on the red | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
button. The winner of that one plays the winner of this one. John Isner | :12:54. | :13:02. | |
won the first set on a tie-break. He is a set up and it is on serve in | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
the second. That is what is happening elsewhere. Back we go. | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
I think if you had asked the crowd on Court 12, which of these players | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
has won 21 titles and which has won only one, they would certainly have | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
been wrong with the verdict on the evidence so far. | :13:32. | :13:43. | |
Caroline Wozniacki who was number one for three years has now got back | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
into this match. Can she make it count? | :13:49. | :14:02. | |
Perfectly executed. Not an easy shot to hit. | :14:03. | :14:26. | |
You need a little bit of fortune. That is the way she has got to play, | :14:27. | :14:36. | |
surely? She tried the other way. That did not work. | :14:37. | :15:21. | |
I think the applause is in part because the crowd want to see this | :15:22. | :15:30. | |
contest go on and they want to see the real Wozniacki. They have had a | :15:31. | :15:39. | |
few glimpses in the last two games. She is back to parity in the second | :15:40. | :15:40. | |
set. Wozniacki is having to solve out | :15:41. | :17:07. | |
here today. Is what has stopped her from winning a major, when she has | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
the ability to hit as many winners as she needs to land her opponent | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
can. -- and her opponent can. I think Wozniacki will surprise | :17:15. | :17:32. | |
today even though they have played on three previous occasions. | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
Wozniacki has won all three match ups. Never on a grass court. Twice | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
on clay and once on a hard court. She would love to have that one back | :17:40. | :18:12. | |
again. Just looking down at the ball bounce. Not quite timing it the way | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
I would like. A good hold. But indications were | :18:18. | :18:54. | |
clearly there and not before time that Wozniacki is prepared to be | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
aggressive. That is why it was a good hold. There was a point there | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
where Wozniacki had a ball up the line and she tried to do it a little | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
bit more than she would normally do. Her opponent was forcing her to play | :19:12. | :19:21. | |
like that. Strycova realised it was the possibility of Windsor. She has | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
just got her nose back in front again. | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
This is one of the great tennis players. I cannot call it the | :19:33. | :19:52. | |
oldies, she is one of the legends. Wozniacki's father looks a little | :19:53. | :20:05. | |
more animated now. No hesitation at all here. Strycova | :20:06. | :20:38. | |
had such good net position. A little greys maybe. -- a greys. | :20:39. | :21:47. | |
She is happy having a conversation with herself. A lot of the time in | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
English, funnily enough. Accurately dispatched. Months of | :21:50. | :22:50. | |
training. They do a terrific job. The first two points from errors at | :22:51. | :24:32. | |
either end. That was a good call of fault from | :24:33. | :24:49. | |
the chair. That was the first case for the | :24:50. | :25:10. | |
match. -- ace. In that last rally, Wozniacki did | :25:11. | :27:13. | |
everything she could. The other one just came up with the winning shot. | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
It is the drop shot from this lady today which has been such an | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
effective shot. She hit one very early in the match and then she hit | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
another one which was terrible! Since the terrible one, it doesn't | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
always go for the winner, does it? But it certainly sets up the point | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
for her. She moves in after. She says, I will hit it short. Wozniacki | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
has to open the racket face to get the ball over. Strycova was there to | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
take advantage of her. A very effective shot it has been for her | :27:49. | :27:49. | |
today. Caroline Wozniacki knowing full well | :27:50. | :28:09. | |
she has to hold here. Otherwise, another Grand Slam will have come | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
and gone for her. Terrific anticipation. She saw it | :28:13. | :29:09. | |
coming. Look how far behind the baseline Strycova is there. She gets | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
to this one easily. Tremendous footwork. | :29:13. | :30:30. | |
accelerator from the start of this game. She has two match points | :30:31. | :30:37. | |
against the number 16 seed. Good scrambling from Wozniacki, she | :30:38. | :31:35. | |
was caught so deep. Just made it difficult enough. | :31:36. | :31:46. | |
These drop shots are no surprise any more. Caroline Wozniacki knows that | :31:47. | :33:07. | |
they are coming so she covered that. But the Czech lady is good enough to | :33:08. | :33:14. | |
put that over Wozniacki who was charging to look for the crosscourt. | :33:15. | :33:22. | |
Well played. This does not look too good. She took a slide at the back | :33:23. | :33:35. | |
of the court. You all right? | :33:36. | :33:43. | |
-- are you all right. An enquiry by Wozniacki. The umpire is out of the | :33:44. | :33:46. | |
chair. UMPIRE: Macro advantage, miss | :33:47. | :34:07. | |
Wozniacki. -- advantage. She is clearly all | :34:08. | :34:08. | |
right. Credit to her, two match point saved | :34:09. | :34:39. | |
and she was driving herself at the end to stay alive. That second match | :34:40. | :34:44. | |
point, Wozniacki was pulled deep in the backhand court and Strycova was | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
looking to charge, at the back of the net, and Wozniacki was good | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
enough to make a play an awkward folly which she missed. -- to make | :34:54. | :34:56. | |
her play. She generates good pace on this | :34:57. | :36:33. | |
backhand side, Strycova. Again looking to come forward. Always | :36:34. | :36:38. | |
seemingly having that extra punch. That is good. The pace of this line | :36:39. | :37:32. | |
on that backhand, it was just enough. | :37:33. | :37:52. | |
What a response to saving two match points. | :37:53. | :38:05. | |
Sue Barker: Just one game away and we will be back on Court 12 in a | :38:06. | :38:13. | |
moment. They are getting underway on the two big show courts. This is | :38:14. | :38:21. | |
Alize Cornet and Eugenie Bouchard on Centre Court. Eugenie Bouchard is | :38:22. | :38:26. | |
the rising star and she lost to Maria Sharapova at the French oak, | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
she was 15 to one at the start and now ten to one -- the French Open. | :38:32. | :38:38. | |
Up against a player who put out Serena Williams. That is on Centre | :38:39. | :38:46. | |
Court. And on Court Number One, | :38:47. | :38:52. | |
Court. Lisicki, last year's runner-up up, | :38:53. | :38:56. | |
against Ana Ivanovic, a game held over from Saturday night, a third | :38:57. | :39:02. | |
round match. It is one game-all and they will resume on Court One. We | :39:03. | :39:08. | |
are joining Centre Court soon but not until the end of this set on | :39:09. | :39:12. | |
Court 12, and it could be the end of the match. | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
Caroline Wozniacki is looking to take this set into the tie-break. | :39:18. | :39:24. | |
And into a final set. A little bit more on those forehands | :39:25. | :40:02. | |
from Wozniacki. It is more her style, forcing her opponent into a | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
mistake by keeping rally going. -- the rally. | :40:08. | :40:43. | |
The same again. 30-love. Just losing it a little bit down here. She has | :40:44. | :40:57. | |
had the two match points. She had that point but through excellent | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
play from Caroline Wozniacki to stay in that point... | :41:03. | :41:34. | |
She had a volley to put away and Wozniacki could not quite get it and | :41:35. | :43:01. | |
it got a bit awkward. A little sign to her coach after | :43:02. | :43:22. | |
that. And it is another match point. Right on the line for the serve. Her | :43:23. | :43:32. | |
dad just saying, keep fighting. She knows no other way, in Caroline | :43:33. | :43:33. | |
Wozniacki. -- Caroline Wozniacki. Immediately moving in again. | :43:34. | :44:11. | |
Wozniacki desperately trying to get to it and once again, the 16th seed | :44:12. | :44:20. | |
faces match point. A fourth opportunity for Strycova. | :44:21. | :44:47. | |
She is saving her best for those match point when she is down, | :44:48. | :44:54. | |
Wozniacki. Looking to be aggressive, moving forward, good first serve. | :44:55. | :45:34. | |
That was a well played point, that backhand volley put it deep and | :45:35. | :45:43. | |
awkward for Wozniacki. Match point number five. | :45:44. | :45:54. | |
This is another first serve from Wozniacki. Possibly just a little | :45:55. | :46:12. | |
bit cautious on that return. She just pushed it, that is just | :46:13. | :46:43. | |
nerves. That was just nerves. 80 mph, trying to get it into the | :46:44. | :46:51. | |
square. The racket head slowed down and that was the result. | :46:52. | :46:58. | |
A double fault. It sets up the six match point. -- the sixth. | :46:59. | :47:15. | |
It is out! And she has done it again! | :47:16. | :47:31. | |
She cannot believe it. But she has deserved it, she has been the | :47:32. | :47:43. | |
aggressor all the way through. And she had too much firepower for | :47:44. | :47:49. | |
Wozniacki. And you do not say that too often. And too much for 80, and | :47:50. | :47:53. | |
it is only fitting the match point came off a drop shot which stood her | :47:54. | :48:00. | |
in good stead in this match. That is good to see for the sport of tennis. | :48:01. | :48:02. | |
So Strycova is through. In one hour and 35-minute. | :48:03. | :48:16. | |
Wozniacki's hopes once again go up in smoke. | :48:17. | :48:21. | |
Sue Barker: That is the third seed in a row that Strycova has beaten | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
here at Wimbledon. What a story! She is through to the next round to face | :48:28. | :48:38. | |
either Petro pivot of Shuai Peng. On Centre Court, Andy Murray will be | :48:39. | :48:42. | |
second on court against Kevin Anderson but first, it is Eugenie | :48:43. | :48:49. | |
Bouchard against Alize Cornet caused a sensation of the tournament on | :48:50. | :48:53. | |
Saturday, putting out Serena Williams. She reflects here on that | :48:54. | :49:00. | |
magnificent win. The most important game of the | :49:01. | :49:07. | |
career of Alize Cornet. I am not intimidated by anyone. I | :49:08. | :49:12. | |
try not to focus too much on who I have the other side of the net. If | :49:13. | :49:17. | |
you are focused on the championship is, you feel like you are nothing on | :49:18. | :49:21. | |
the court so it is better to focus on what I have to do. | :49:22. | :49:30. | |
I cannot believe that I did it myself am I beat Serena, the World | :49:31. | :49:39. | |
Number 1. It is a dream and I have to realise it and I have to be ready | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
for the next match because the tournament is not over for me. | :49:44. | :49:48. | |
I am in disbelief, I did something huge on Court Number One in front of | :49:49. | :49:53. | |
this amazing crowd so I have two enjoyed this victory because it does | :49:54. | :49:57. | |
not happen very often -- I have two enjoy. At Wimbledon, on grass, to | :49:58. | :50:02. | |
get to the second week, it is a dream. The biggest game of her | :50:03. | :50:07. | |
career against the champion. It is ridiculous, I think! Because | :50:08. | :50:12. | |
it means now I love the grass and I did not before! | :50:13. | :50:19. | |
Eugenie Bouchard next, how do you prefer? She is definitely a talented | :50:20. | :50:25. | |
player and she played amazing, especially at the beginning of the | :50:26. | :50:29. | |
season. So it is going to be a huge challenge again. But I will try to | :50:30. | :50:34. | |
do as usual, fighting on every point, trying my best and enjoying | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
the moment, that is the most important. | :50:39. | :50:39. | |
Yes! Perfection! Does that make you | :50:40. | :50:45. | |
think, I have beaten the best player in the world, I am going to win | :50:46. | :50:50. | |
this? No, never! It is such a long way to go, I am only in the fourth | :50:51. | :50:55. | |
round and there are a lot of players that can win. It gives me hope to go | :50:56. | :51:01. | |
further in the tournament but I do not see myself as the winner of | :51:02. | :51:04. | |
Wimbledon yet, I am taking it match by match and that is the key of | :51:05. | :51:07. | |
going forward. Sue Barker: It got tense against | :51:08. | :51:17. | |
Serena Williams and she did hold her nerve, can she today? She is on | :51:18. | :51:21. | |
Centre Court. On Court Number One, this match is held over from | :51:22. | :51:27. | |
Saturday. Sabine Lisicki, on serve in the second against former World | :51:28. | :51:34. | |
Number 1 Ana Ivanovic. That is on the red button. We are heading to | :51:35. | :51:37. | |
the Eugenie Bouchard who has only been in the fourth round for the | :51:38. | :51:46. | |
first time in a Grand Slam. It is one game-all and our commentators | :51:47. | :51:48. | |
are Martina Navratilova and Chris. The main draw for the former | :51:49. | :52:00. | |
Wimbledon champion a couple of years ago. Eugenie Bouchard against the | :52:01. | :52:04. | |
French junior champion of 2007. We have two junior prodigies with | :52:05. | :52:19. | |
one being in the thick of it. Bouchard has been -- one has been | :52:20. | :52:24. | |
around a couple of years and Bouchard is improving all the time | :52:25. | :52:29. | |
-- one. We have had a couple of break points. -- Alize Cornet. Great | :52:30. | :52:44. | |
variety Cornet showed in the win against Serena Williams. She is a | :52:45. | :52:49. | |
great thinker and a great fighter. She comes to the net despite herself | :52:50. | :52:53. | |
will stop she did not want to and she plays a nice drop volley. -- | :52:54. | :52:56. | |
herself. We are still on serve. It is interesting, Martina, with | :52:57. | :53:20. | |
Cornet winning that junior French championship in 2007, at the end the | :53:21. | :53:24. | |
following year she was top 16 in the world. So much similar with Bouchard | :53:25. | :53:32. | |
and her seamless move from juniors. Bouchard has definitely been on a | :53:33. | :53:36. | |
long-term programme with her coach. Working on all aspects of her game. | :53:37. | :53:40. | |
She has a great head on her shoulders and she treats the game | :53:41. | :53:45. | |
professionally. She wants to be as good a player as possible. However | :53:46. | :53:46. | |
long it takes. Bouchard going forward most of the | :53:47. | :54:04. | |
time. This time, she is going sideways at the momentum is pretty | :54:05. | :54:10. | |
good against the ball. You can see the big backswing and this is the | :54:11. | :54:14. | |
more typical shot, return of serve. She takes it early and she puts her | :54:15. | :54:19. | |
weight into the shot so she does not have to swing so hard but still have | :54:20. | :54:30. | |
all the control. 1-2, Bouchard, after 14 minutes in the first set. | :54:31. | :55:52. | |
No! A 4.5 hour delay on Saturday. Some people have come prepared. At | :55:53. | :56:05. | |
least they will keep playing, that is a big comfort to them. | :56:06. | :56:17. | |
That is good defence from Cornet. Bouchard gets stuck between the | :56:18. | :56:32. | |
service line and the baseline and she did not commit to them that. | :56:33. | :56:40. | |
Dashed to the net. Cornet does the right thing when she needs to. -- to | :56:41. | :56:44. | |
the net. She is saying, what? The ball was | :56:45. | :57:05. | |
out? She is making a challenge. I am convinced, are you? That is why | :57:06. | :57:08. | |
there was no call. Amazing body position into the | :57:09. | :57:32. | |
ground. Just some spots. Her coach, on a regular tournaments, he is | :57:33. | :57:37. | |
allowed on Court Two allow advice and he talks constantly to Bouchard | :57:38. | :57:43. | |
about one shot at a time, let alone one point at a time. It is a very | :57:44. | :57:48. | |
clear message and he hardly ever talks tactics. The here and now. | :57:49. | :58:00. | |
You can get down on yourself -- she can get down on herself, Bouchard. | :58:01. | :58:08. | |
She is so driven and ambitious. That is a blessing and a curse in a | :58:09. | :58:14. | |
perfectionist. Andy Murray has it, Novak Djokovic has it, we all have | :58:15. | :58:20. | |
it. And Bouchard definitely expects a lot of herself. You have two | :58:21. | :58:26. | |
expect a lot but let yourself off the hook and not get too much into | :58:27. | :58:29. | |
the end result so you can stay in the moment and let go of the bad | :58:30. | :58:33. | |
shot, because we all hit them. Look how low Bouchard stays here, | :58:34. | :59:01. | |
just rotating her body weight behind the ball. | :59:02. | :59:11. | |
That was too big a swing for a shot hit at the body. That is a rock! The | :59:12. | :59:24. | |
petals will go further up with the rain around. | :59:25. | :59:30. | |
On serve. With BBC Hawk-eye, Martina, we talked in the warm up | :59:31. | :59:44. | |
about Cornet needing happy feet because Bouchard can get onto the | :59:45. | :59:48. | |
return so early. Yes, you need to get ready at the biggest thing... | :59:49. | :59:58. | |
Bouchard has not hit one ball behind the serve baseline on the return of | :59:59. | :00:04. | |
serve, that is pretty ridiculous because that takes a lot of timing. | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
Nobody has been able to serve hard enough to make her back away. As a | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
server, the ball get there quicker so you have to back away quicker or | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
just get set in your position to get ready for the shot because the | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
danger of trying to get back fast, momentum will carry you backwards. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
So even if you are in position, momentum will hit you backwards and | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
it is difficult to get a second shot. I prefer people to be in the | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
wrong place but well-balanced than be in the right place at going in | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
one direction or another because you are committed and you are a sitting | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
duck, you are stuck. -- but going. It is better to be neutral and in | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
the wrong place. Get ready for the next shot and you can go any | :00:57. | :00:57. | |
direction. a former finalist, he lost to Stan | :00:58. | :01:16. | |
Smith in 1972. And they are taking the covers. A wonderful job the | :01:17. | :01:31. | |
teams do on all the courts. This is a big cover to unfurl. I guess they | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
have extra people to pull it. They got a little more play than | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
Saturday. About ten minutes before warrant a half hours was the delay. | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
They are used to it, at least. It is frustrating for all concerned. When | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
you come off, you talk to your coach right away, you get some poles of | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
wisdom in case it starts raining quickly. Then you figure out how | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
long the break will be approximately. Martina, we also | :02:08. | :02:19. | |
discussed the Cornet, -- for Cornet, she had a win in Dubai. That was a | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
huge win. The following day, she played Venus in the final and | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
rescued three games. At least she had the day off on Sunday to get | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
ready for today's big challenge. That helps mentally and physically. | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
The match on Saturday was pretty rough. On the grass, you get more | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
sore than other surfaces. It is good to have a day off to give your body | :02:48. | :02:57. | |
arrest. A pretty high backswing. Now she is going up on the ball to hit | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
it. That can be tricky. If you get up too high, that has covered the | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
ball. I do not think she will be going up as high. It is a high ball | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
so now she is on her tiptoes. There is Sir Al. Gamble to win was | :03:19. | :03:36. | |
Sir Alex Ferguson's motto. He did some winning. -- there is Sir Alex | :03:37. | :03:50. | |
Ferguson he does not need James Bond so much these days, Andy Murray. He | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
can do it himself. It is nice to have some extra help. He's looking | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
good this year, Andy Murray. Very calm and confident. The monkey is | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
off his back, he can relax. Now the pressure is off and if he wins | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
another one, it is the icing on the another one, it is the icing on the | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
cake. The biggest pressure was lasted. 22 minutes and Cornet leads | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
3-2. SUE BARKER: What a shame after just | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
a short time on court. We do have the roof so if the rain will be | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
persistent we will get someplace in. I do not think they will close | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
the roof just yet because it is just a shower. There is quite a strong | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
wind so we hope it will not be too long and players will be back in | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
court soon. We have a lot to look forward to on the second Monday of | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
the Championships. Coming up, the second chapter of Andy Murray's | :04:57. | :04:57. | |
Wimbledon story. As he steps onto Centre Court, | :04:58. | :05:09. | |
expectation is high. What a perfect start. Blaz Rola, he has admired | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
Andy Murray for some time. Now he has got a chance. Murray is romping | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
away with this one now. As comprehensive victory as are likely | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
to see. That is so good of Spain has a chance of taking on the defending | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
champion. -- Roberto Bautista Agut. A wonderful performance, it really | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
was. SUE BARKER: What a performance it | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
was from Andy Murray. Dropping 19 games en route to the fourth round. | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
He is up against Kevin Anderson today, the big server from South | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
Africa. Before the rain came down, Andy was on the practice court and | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
Gary was watching. Mark, you are going to be | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
commentating on Kevin later, how much of an advantage is his | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
physique? That will help, no matter how well Andy plays out here but he | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
will be looking to take his second serve. The disadvantage of playing | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
Andy on a grass court, in any exchanges from the back of the | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
court, Andy's ball comes very low. Being six foot eight and | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
having to bend down, he will have to put a lot of spin on the ball. He | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
said he will be very aggressive because that is when he is at his | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
best? Yes, if Andy has continued to serve as well as he has in the first | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
week, Kevin is not a guy who defends a big first serve. If there is able | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
to be hit, expect him to come out there. What about the way he handled | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
the occasion. Last week he played on court 17 with just two -- 200 people | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
watching. It will be different. He is a guy who has worked his life for | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
this opportunity. I expect him to try and take it well. Thank you. | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
That is the scene at Wimbledon. Not just a shower, a heavy shower. | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
Luckily, the players got their practice in before the rain came | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
down. We can hear from Kevin Anderson. | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
You shortly walk out onto Centre Court and by way of preparation you | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
have walked from the locker room and taken some photographs. I went there | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
yesterday. It is nice to get some familiarity with it so I know what | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
it will look like when I come out. What was that walk like for you? It | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
was special. It is an amazing place to play and I'm sure it will be more | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
amazing with a packed stadium. Seeing the champions up on the board | :08:06. | :08:17. | |
and the trophy was quite special. Do you have a list perhaps? I am sure | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
it will be a great atmosphere out there. The better atmosphere, the | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
more fun it is playing there. It is great to feel part of that. I am | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
sure it will be a good crowd and I will be ready for it. Last week you | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
said you would be aggressive because that is when you play your best | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
tennis? I will stick with what I need to do to play my best tennis. A | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
lot of the game will be the way I have been playing the whole week so | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
far. Thank you for stopping by and had luck. | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
He is probably pleased he had a couple of days. The rain is throwing | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
it down here at Wimbledon. It is much heavier than we have been | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
anticipating. We have heard from the referee's office that they are going | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
to close the roof on Centre Court. So Cornet against Bouchard will | :09:16. | :09:26. | |
continue under the roof will stop. In the meantime we will take you to | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
a match that was played earlier, Feliciano Lopez against John Isner. | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
This is a third-round match. We can join it in the second set. Isner has | :09:37. | :09:46. | |
won it on the tie-break. The commentators are Mark Cox and Simon | :09:47. | :09:47. | |
Reade. A nice little rally that one, good | :09:48. | :10:56. | |
skill. Certainly was. Isner anticipated well. He moved before | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
Lopez had even hit the ball. Another love service game. It is | :11:01. | :11:10. | |
three games each. Not returning as well. He read that. | :11:11. | :12:14. | |
Way, way long. A huge kick on the second serve and | :12:15. | :12:38. | |
he is in front again. The last four games have been | :12:39. | :12:58. | |
totally dominated by serve. It is the dilemma how you get the ball | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
back with a degree of interests or at least you have got a chance of | :13:07. | :13:15. | |
winning the point. Lopez looks like he has strained his left ankle. Some | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
players have some support there, they wear supports underneath the | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
socks. I think the shoes that they wear these days with the pimples | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
actually applaud the court and very often, you need support around the | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
ankles, just so you can change direction quickly. They have to | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
conform to They can be too large because otherwise they will dig up | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
the court. -- they have to conform to specifications. A lovely sight of | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
Wimbledon in full flow. Not an easy shot but look at the | :14:03. | :14:54. | |
depth of it. Lopez winning 84% points behind his | :14:55. | :16:01. | |
first serve. No problem at all. The second set is | :16:02. | :16:55. | |
racing through just as quick as the first set. | :16:56. | :17:10. | |
Well and truly dominated by serve. Some good second shots being played. | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
There have been some very good second shots which of course are | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
also important in the game. The service the main thing that opens up | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
the court and creates the opportunity is to be assertive and | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
aggressive. The second set is pretty dominant as well. Lopez is not as | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
powerful. Very well placed. In a way, Isner serving first has a | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
marginal advantage. If he can just get the first and second points, the | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
pressure will increase on Lopez. For him to get the first or second | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
point, it has not happened so far in the match, it is quite a tall order. | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
The question is whether Lopez starts to think about the situation and | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
starts to get a bit tense. The arm can get a bit tight, maybe, that can | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
affect things. He has pushed it wide. Here are the | :18:17. | :21:16. | |
first break points of the match for either player. | :21:17. | :22:07. | |
He waited until Lopez had made his move. That was a good first serve. | :22:08. | :22:19. | |
Lopez did well to get back into play. Not enough on it to be a | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
problem for Isner. Well played. Still in this game, | :22:23. | :23:01. | |
Lopez. Another great effort by Lopez. He looked like he was going | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
crosscourt but he hooked it down the line. | :23:05. | :23:36. | |
He waves the fist at last. Another chance. | :23:37. | :24:11. | |
What a second serve. 109 mph, out wide. Frustrating for Lopez. | :24:12. | :24:29. | |
He is taking his time, I don't blame him. | :24:30. | :24:52. | |
The move in does the trick. Isner not coping well. | :24:53. | :25:06. | |
The most interesting game of the match. Yes, the most exciting game. | :25:07. | :26:33. | |
One has emotions watching Lopez here. When he got into the rally he | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
did exactly the right thing. He got himself a situation where he could | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
chip and charge, come into the net, put the pressure on Isner and he won | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
four break points. What he has been waiting for the entire match, and | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
the response from Isner has been some good serving. You have to | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
contemplate him -- compliment him on the serving. It was a second serve | :27:01. | :27:08. | |
out wide. That was the best opportunity that Lopez had. At least | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
he connected with him. It will be frustrating for him. He got so | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
close. In the first set tie-break he had a glimmer of opportunity. This | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
match is not doing him too many favours at the moment. His mind has | :27:25. | :27:34. | |
got been -- got to be refocused now. He has got a chance in the | :27:35. | :27:35. | |
tie-break. Beautiful. The roles reversed there. | :27:36. | :28:31. | |
What an exquisite shot from Lopez. The right tactic to come into the | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
net but this is glorious really. He did so well to control that. It is | :28:37. | :28:39. | |
so low. A superb drop shot. That is good serving form for Lopez | :28:40. | :29:15. | |
to go into the break-up. A second successive break up. | :29:16. | :29:22. | |
The first one was ten points to eight to Isner. | :29:23. | :29:45. | |
This would have been more of a shot down the line. This is easy for him. | :29:46. | :31:21. | |
Electric speed from Lopez but a good volley from Isner. | :31:22. | :31:33. | |
A super rally here and he does well to fend off that backhand volley. | :31:34. | :31:41. | |
Moving quickly for a big man at the net. | :31:42. | :32:02. | |
It is amazing Isner's lack of success here, never a second round. | :32:03. | :32:21. | |
It is just coincidence. He has had injuries one way or another and he | :32:22. | :32:23. | |
had an injury this year in Australia, a foot injury. He had to | :32:24. | :32:29. | |
pull out of the Australian Open. He has been plagued with that but to -- | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
but it is surprising. Lopez is on his toes. One of these | :32:34. | :32:54. | |
next two points could be decisive for him. | :32:55. | :33:08. | |
He has got the opportunity with a second serve now. | :33:09. | :33:22. | |
Goodness gracious! That backhand was really good into the corner. It was | :33:23. | :33:37. | |
a final rally, that was decisive. It was high, he has plenty of time to | :33:38. | :33:40. | |
think about it and heap or phrases that ball! -- pulveriser is. | :33:41. | :34:01. | |
Yes! Tremendous! A good rally from both guys. Isner did fine but Lopez | :34:02. | :34:12. | |
eyed up that pass and will it be the crucial moment in this set? Williams | :34:13. | :34:18. | |
play, both players playing well. -- great play. A superb forehand down | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
the line and he does more damage with the forehand and the backhand | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
and that is a fine shot. It gives him the initiative. He got the break | :34:29. | :34:33. | |
in the first tie-break and he was not able to convert. This is an | :34:34. | :34:42. | |
important point here for Lopez. The body serve comes up trumps. Two set | :34:43. | :34:51. | |
points for Feliciano Lopez. This is the one that matters. | :34:52. | :35:14. | |
Again, it did the trick. Lopez is unhinged. That is right on the line. | :35:15. | :35:27. | |
There was chalked. It was so close, he was tempted that she would be | :35:28. | :35:35. | |
tempted to call for Hawk-eye -- he would be tempted to call for | :35:36. | :35:37. | |
Hawk-eye. Now it is Isner. 137 mph, his quickest serve so far | :35:38. | :35:58. | |
and is two set points have been saved. -- and two. It is unfortunate | :35:59. | :36:06. | |
for Lopez because he has had the run of play. Four break points on the | :36:07. | :36:13. | |
Isner serve. He had set points in the first set the tie-break. -- set | :36:14. | :36:16. | |
point. Yes! Lucky! Right on the extremity. | :36:17. | :36:49. | |
And he puts up his hair -- his hands an apology because Isner seems to | :36:50. | :36:55. | |
have control. But it was the only thing that would work! Not a clean | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
hit but he managed to get back almost like a squash shot. He has | :37:01. | :37:11. | |
got another set points. On his serve, set points number three. -- | :37:12. | :37:13. | |
another set point. He deserves it. Nothing to choose | :37:14. | :37:38. | |
between the two of them. Two tie-breaks. One each. And judging by | :37:39. | :37:50. | |
the response of the crowd, I feel it is only just Lopez got that set. -- | :37:51. | :38:01. | |
they feel. Significant applause. The stats are extraordinary. 91, 70 | :38:02. | :38:13. | |
Isner. Note double faults. Lopez normally serves double faults and he | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
has not today -- and no double faults. And no on unforced errors | :38:18. | :38:23. | |
for Lopez. Very solid play. -- no unforced errors. It is time to take | :38:24. | :38:31. | |
stock and have a bit of lunch. We thought this match might go to five. | :38:32. | :38:41. | |
It very well might. He will feel justified now. | :38:42. | :38:44. | |
Yes, he has played good forehand shots, Lopez. That has been the shot | :38:45. | :38:53. | |
that has made the difference. He has gone for them will stop he has | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
played a couple of others which have been critical. De she has gone for | :38:58. | :39:04. | |
them. That has posed Robins for Isner. -- problems. And in one game, | :39:05. | :39:15. | |
Lopez had more points than he had in the entire match he still did not | :39:16. | :39:19. | |
break. That must have been frustrating for him but he kept his | :39:20. | :39:24. | |
presence of mind and his focus in the tie-break and he maintains high | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
quality play when it matters most. After the one and a half hours, we | :39:29. | :39:48. | |
move to set number three. -- after one and a half hours. | :39:49. | :39:57. | |
We outlined the danger for Isner at the start of the second set. He has | :39:58. | :40:02. | |
got to be careful now. A magnificent return from Isner. | :40:03. | :41:16. | |
Impossible for Lopez to get a decent second shot. Playing a good game. A | :41:17. | :41:23. | |
fine return at the feet of Lopez and he did well to control it. | :41:24. | :41:39. | |
If it had been one inch higher, that would have been a winner. | :41:40. | :42:38. | |
Yes! It was a tricky shot. And again, he had the talent to make it, | :42:39. | :42:52. | |
Lopez. Lopez had to work hard to hold his serve. He was under a | :42:53. | :43:01. | |
little bit of threat. That was the first game of a set and it very | :43:02. | :43:09. | |
often can be critical, especially if you are not fully concentrating. | :43:10. | :43:14. | |
Isner had certainly raised his concentration and he got most of his | :43:15. | :43:18. | |
serves backhand he was in with a chance on every point. -- and he | :43:19. | :43:26. | |
was. Three of them have, on second | :43:27. | :44:17. | |
serves, those 25 aces. -- have come on Ulster --. A good percentage of | :44:18. | :44:23. | |
the points are aces. Yes! A good-looking second shot from | :44:24. | :44:45. | |
Isner but Lopez was not having it. A delicious backhand, he does not hit | :44:46. | :44:51. | |
too many flat shots, he prefers the slice. | :44:52. | :45:04. | |
Isner's style has not dropped, still nothing to choose between them. | :45:05. | :46:42. | |
Returns like that are few and far between. | :46:43. | :47:01. | |
Serves like that very much in evidence and Lopez goes to two Lopez | :47:02. | :47:17. | |
-- tattoo -1. -- to 2-1. Normal service has been resumed, it is fair | :47:18. | :47:20. | |
to say. The crowd are enjoying this match. It is nice and warm, no need | :47:21. | :47:33. | |
for heavy clothing. We have been very fortunate with the weather so | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
far. Bits of sunshine from time to time, mainly overcast. The forecast | :47:39. | :47:44. | |
is reasonable this afternoon. Maybe the occasional shower. There is a | :47:45. | :47:53. | |
big cloud looming. Crossing fingers! And it has just started raining, | :47:54. | :48:00. | |
very light. Nothing to take the players off at the moment. But there | :48:01. | :48:05. | |
is an isolated cloud that is coming overhead. | :48:06. | :48:11. | |
That is the cult hit. -- culprit. The energy dissipated out of the | :48:12. | :48:25. | |
match is of the lengthy first two sets. Every book on -- everybody is | :48:26. | :48:32. | |
regarding this like the warm up. It heightened with the end of that | :48:33. | :48:34. | |
second set, very entertaining. That is the shot that has been | :48:35. | :49:21. | |
missing too often for Isner. 28 successive games, we have had, | :49:22. | :50:29. | |
with no breaks of serve. A bit more rain. They are going to carry on. | :50:30. | :50:34. | |
with no breaks of serve. A bit more rain. They are Eating close to going | :50:35. | :50:37. | |
off, I would think. -- getting close. I am not sure they would go | :50:38. | :50:41. | |
off, they would probably just wait. The ground staff are poised. They | :50:42. | :50:48. | |
will cover the court if necessary. Umbrellas going got now, the rain is | :50:49. | :51:26. | |
getting a little bit harder. -- going up. | :51:27. | :51:34. | |
This could be a crucial point. He stood his ground well here, Isner. | :51:35. | :51:45. | |
He blocks that ball down the line. A critical point for Lopez. | :51:46. | :52:05. | |
Now it is raining pretty hard. If it carries on like this, there is a | :52:06. | :52:13. | |
doubt they will carry on much longer. | :52:14. | :52:32. | |
He has missed it! A shot he makes 99 times out of 100. Two break points | :52:33. | :52:50. | |
for Isner. His first break points of the match. | :52:51. | :52:59. | |
Again, he guessed right but he could not get the execution. | :53:00. | :53:28. | |
It just kept ongoing. He must have felt there was a hole in his racket! | :53:29. | :53:42. | |
This is a glorious serve, 108 mph. I do not know why he missed that, he | :53:43. | :53:48. | |
was within striking distance. The slice moved the ball wide, I | :53:49. | :53:50. | |
suppose. The rain has eased. Isner is giving himself a hard time, | :53:51. | :54:00. | |
he has had chances. It is a lovely shot! Beautiful | :54:01. | :54:36. | |
control from the American. Yes, he has the angle to play with here but | :54:37. | :54:42. | |
not enough penetration on that approach shot. It was too short and | :54:43. | :54:46. | |
that gave Isner the chance to play the crosscourt. | :54:47. | :55:22. | |
He was hanging on and Isner will feel he should have made his move, | :55:23. | :55:31. | |
but it did not happen and Lopez is in front again. | :55:32. | :55:36. | |
Sue Barker: That is where rain stopped play on Court three and the | :55:37. | :55:39. | |
players are still in the locker room. It is looking | :55:40. | :55:40. | |
players are still in the locker room. It is brighter here at | :55:41. | :55:43. | |
players are still in the locker room. It is brighter here Wimbledon | :55:44. | :55:45. | |
and the rain has moved away. We have sunshine at the moment but we are | :55:46. | :55:51. | |
hearing that it will not be any player on the outside courts until | :55:52. | :55:55. | |
at least 2:45 p.m.. There is play under the roof on Centre Court and | :55:56. | :56:00. | |
you can see that on BBC One where it is 5-games all -- where it is five | :56:01. | :56:08. | |
games each between Eugenie Bouchard and Alize Cornet. That is over on | :56:09. | :56:16. | |
BBC One. But the good news here, the covers are coming off the outside | :56:17. | :56:20. | |
courts so hopefully we will get play in about 15, 20 minutes. Carol is | :56:21. | :56:26. | |
outside, is it going to be one of those days again of on and off? | :56:27. | :56:31. | |
I think so, yes. Over the next couple of hours, we are looking at | :56:32. | :56:36. | |
further showers. Not as heavy but they will be here. They are moving | :56:37. | :56:41. | |
smartly and we are looking at sunny spells. Maximum temperature in the | :56:42. | :56:48. | |
sunshine around 20 Celsius with a gentle breeze and it does feel | :56:49. | :56:51. | |
pretty nice will stop tomorrow is very similar. -- and nice. A lot of | :56:52. | :56:59. | |
dry weather with sunny spells but we cannot rule out showers, but at | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
least they are keeping pollen levels lower. | :57:05. | :57:09. | |
Always good news, and what a shame I was telling Rafael Nadal it will be | :57:10. | :57:14. | |
better weather this week. Some results to you and another big | :57:15. | :57:19. | |
upset. The 16th seed and former world number 111 macro is out, | :57:20. | :57:23. | |
beaten by Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic -- Wells | :57:24. | :57:30. | |
number one, Caroline Wozniacki. The third seed she has put -- the third | :57:31. | :57:38. | |
seed she has put out in a role -- in a row. That is the story here at | :57:39. | :57:42. | |
Wimbledon. No problems for the number five seed Stanislas Wawrinka, | :57:43. | :57:50. | |
straight sets over Denis Istomin who was struggling and he had the doctor | :57:51. | :57:53. | |
on court because he was not feeling well. This is a third round match | :57:54. | :57:59. | |
and it is not yet decided. Hawk-eye needs to confirm. That is in, so | :58:00. | :58:05. | |
Stanislas Wawrinka is through to face either Lopez or Isner. And this | :58:06. | :58:13. | |
match was held over from Saturday. They resumed in the fifth and final | :58:14. | :58:21. | |
set and it was won by the 10th seed. He is the first Japanese man | :58:22. | :58:28. | |
into the top ten, Kei Nishikori, he is having a great year at Wimbledon. | :58:29. | :58:37. | |
He will be back in court tomorrow. And Peter Fleming is here with me. | :58:38. | :58:42. | |
We thought it was going to be so nice today after Saturday and they | :58:43. | :58:46. | |
would be playing catch up but it is getting tricky with the draw. | :58:47. | :58:51. | |
Thankfully, it looks clear again and Lopez and Isner really needs to | :58:52. | :59:00. | |
finish otherwise it is complete chaos. As it is, three guys might | :59:01. | :59:06. | |
have to play three days in a row and that is rough if you are playing | :59:07. | :59:12. | |
best of five. Hopefully they will finish and they can get back on | :59:13. | :59:19. | |
schedule by Wednesday. With their serving statistics, they are two of | :59:20. | :59:23. | |
the best servers, this has tie-breaks written all over it. It | :59:24. | :59:28. | |
could be a three-day match in its own right. Isner is used to that. | :59:29. | :59:35. | |
John McEnroe was talking about how because some matches did not get | :59:36. | :59:38. | |
through in the bottom half, the whole bottom half is held up so | :59:39. | :59:45. | |
32-year-old Roger Federer may have to play back-to-back matches. That | :59:46. | :59:51. | |
is rough for him and Rafael Nadal and we do not know how he is feeling | :59:52. | :59:54. | |
but it seems in all his matches, he does not look comfortable walking. | :59:55. | :00:00. | |
He still runs around the court but I would not be surprised if he is | :00:01. | :00:04. | |
feeling a bit of pain, we do not know, he has always had a day off. | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
If he plays two days in a row, does that affect him? I do not know, it | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
is an interesting perspective. of his matches. Yes, so we assume, | :00:14. | :00:30. | |
we look at Rafa and say well, he is a God. He never gets tired, he | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
never, well, you know, he just overcomes everything, but at some | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
point, you would have to think, well, sometimes it just might get to | :00:40. | :00:48. | |
be too much. What a match up he has against Nick Kyrgios, who saved nine | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
match point against Gasquet. He is is a huge story. The Aussies have | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
high hopes for him. You know, does he have enough game to test Rafa? | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
You never know. Gosh, it's, the tennis, Sue, that, the three guys to | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
play Nadal, you know, for at least a set, have been so extraordinary, I | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
mean really, that set that you know, I forget, I commentated on it. I | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
forget who he played yesterday, or Saturday, it was. Any way, doesn't | :01:23. | :01:31. | |
matter, he was great. He was awesome, hitting winners left, right | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
and centre, the problem is that the lesser players, they can't keep it | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
up for the best of five sets is. One set, yes, then it becomes stressful. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
For Rafa, we see, he gets better and better as the tournament goes on, | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
doesn't he? He does, as the matches go on and the tournament goes on, in | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
Paris he looked a little shaky the opening rounds but by the end he was | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
awesome. Are you still confident, because I think you picked him? | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
Yeah, think he is the favourite. Just because he he has that awkward | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
game. There is something about it that just is, is difficult. You | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
know, a guy like Raonic, should she come through and play Rafa in the | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
quarter-finals, it could be a wild card. If you can't see the ball, how | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
will you return it. Absolutely. That is Rafa, but what about Andy Murray? | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
Well, he has just cruised through the -- opening week. He has only | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
dropped 19 games. Let us remind ourselves of that. | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
So Wimbledon is under way, the weather is glorious, there is so | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
much excitement here today, a buzz round the ground, that is because | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
Britain's Wimbledon champion is on court. | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
Expect fashion is high as Murray gets defence of his Wimbledon title | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
under way. Game Murray. Stunning defence from | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
Murray. It is like he has never left this court. | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
First game Murray. The ideal day, ideal start to his defence. | :03:19. | :03:30. | |
What a start to the defence of his title here as SW19. A very high | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
standard of match. He was maybe a bit nervous at beginning. Glad to | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
finish it in three because he was playing so well. Blaz Rola, he | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
admired Andy Murray for some time, now he gets the chance to down the | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
defending champion. It is running away fast. Too hot for Blaz Rola to | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
handle. Murray is romping away with this one | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
now. So good, so easy Blaz Rola has been, | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
blown away. The Murray machine rumbles on. No | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
trouble, no fuss. It was tough for him. He didn't have | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
much grass court experience, he will improve. I took care of my serve | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
pretty well throughout the majority of the match and played well. So how | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
does it feel to be a tennis player? . It feels good. A nice job to have, | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
we get to travel the world and play in nice stadiums and stuff. It's | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
good. Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain has | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
the task of taking on the defending champion and a few of his friends | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
here in Centre Court. These early skirmishes are | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
interesting, the Murray slice backhand. This is what we expected. | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
He is beginning to have that aura of inVince built. Great shot. The man | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
that Murray is dismantle here is 23rd in the world. Just superb. As | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
Andy Murray stays in for the second week at the championships. Wonderful | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
performance. It was. It was a step up. I felt like I responded well. | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
There were a few things I could do better but it has been a good week, | :05:31. | :05:42. | |
now I can rest up and be fresh. He can certainly rest up, he hasn't | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
been for court in six hours yet. Tracey is here, we will talk more | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
about Andy in a moment, but, let us drop in on Centre Court, because | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
they are now in the first set tie-break, hope you enjoyed that, | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
with Bouchard is leading 4-1 in that first set tie-break against Alize | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
Cornet, the player who put out Serena Williams on Saturday. So that | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
match is under the roof on Centre Court on BBC One. We are here play | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
is likely to get under way on outside courts at quarter to, so | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
hopefully ten minutes time. So Tracey, we are looking there at Andy | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
Murray, his, his easiest first week since he started, but when you look | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
at who he has played. They have been the easiest matches, or match ups | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
for him. There have, but I think it would be difficult to come back here | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
and defend, you know, because again there is so many eyes on him. I | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
think Andy, you know, he is in his mid twenties, he is used to the ways | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
of this country, and most expectations were lifted when he won | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
the US Open, a few years back, won the Olympics here and finally won | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
the World Championship last year, so I think that he is feeling like, OK, | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
"Even if I never won anything else... Qch qch of course he has | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
worked hard, he knows he has an incredible career, he has a tough | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
goal last year with the back injury. People forget what a tracky | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
situation that can be, it was back surgery, not just a bad back. Coming | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
back this year, it took him a while to feel comfortable and have | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
confidence his back wouldn't bother him. It is great to see, just with | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
the press and with Kim and with his mum and everything seems to be going | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
well for him. He seems to be handling it, because we go back | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
ability six, seven years when he sthrugled with the press. -- about. | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
-- when he struggled with the press. Now he seems really comfortable in | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
his own skin. And you being American, you see what pressure we | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
put on players over here, it is like no other country. He was brought in, | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
you know, coming from Scotland and going to Barcelona to train, like, | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
wow, straight into the spotlight. Exactly right, and he has, he has | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
handled it well throughout. But especially now as Tracey said, after | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
winning last year, he looks so relaxed. He looks comfortable, | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
whatever, what do you want? OK, fine. That is another thing that | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
Amelie Mauresmo could understand. You bring up the US, we have had so | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
many champion, not to much any more, there was always someone to share it | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
with, whereas Amelie Mauresmo can understand, and she didn't play her | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
best, she won his new coach, she won in Australia and here at Wimbledon, | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
away from the French Open t where all the eyes and expectations were, | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
they have so many things they can compare and she can help him with. | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
He looks relaxed on the practise court, just getting ready, something | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
come back where you have helpy memory, you are staying at home, you | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
have won the tournament. He looks really come fortable in himself. 16 | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
matches in a row, that doesn't hurt, that he has won conspecktively. He | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
is attack, coming forward. Maybe a question mark on a second of second | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
serves in the last match. You can't fault his play. He is so strong. He | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
hits the ball now, so much harder than he did five years ago, but he | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
looks just out on the court as though you can't push him off | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
balance, you know, he moves so well on this surface, and because, I | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
don't know, he understands it better than most guys, he's hitting the | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
ball confidently, and going after it, as you say. And he has such a | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
good record against the big serves, is he is best return or Novak? It is | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
tough for me to say who is the best. Lit us say one of the best with | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
Novak, that is because his hands, the creativity he has, the | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
combination of the great hands, the great feet, I mean Andy is one of | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
the best defensive player, that means getting that extra ball back | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
in play, he is out of the offence now, he has the creativity on court, | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
and he gives his mum a lot of credit for that, Judy, she was always | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
talking about the full court. So many of the players play a similar | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
style of play now, where just linear, it's the same trajectory all | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
the time. Andy uses the angles. Is slice, not just the slice that is | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
deep, but the slice that is low and short, you know, the nasty one we | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
hate so much that we have to dig out from the grass, and that is one | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
thing to teach it, but another to have the creativity mentally to be | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
able to see the full court, and it is fun to watch Andy, because of the | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
different spins, paces, and kind of lull you into sleeping and boom, he | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
has the power as well. He must be horrible to play. He competitive but | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
not just on a tennis court. O over the rain delays and weekend we have | :11:09. | :11:19. | |
been running the Copa-Uppy. Andy got involved and look how impressive. | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
This is his first go. 78 we scored and that was him top of the | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
leaderboard. Seedorf in second. Mark Petchey in third on nine. He was | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
doing the can-can in his ones. Let us see some more challenges -- | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
challengers wanting to take it up. Cup. | :11:40. | :12:14. | |
-- the. Cup. | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
-- Can I catch it each time? My knee. That was one with the toe. | :12:19. | :12:27. | |
On your mark. Get set, go. Andy Murray. Keep practising! | :12:28. | :13:37. | |
So right to the top of the leader board goes Mr Henman, our BBC | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
commentary team is leading the way, but we do hear that Andy Murray | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
wants to have another go. Ten Henman is so extraordinary, he and Andrew | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
Richardson, another guy, a former player, way back when, headed the | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
ball back-and-forth 996 times. No! I swear. He is sick. He is demented. | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
He can't stop himself. That was half an hour Tim Henman got that. They | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
were flying into the copier and he was throwing the drawer, he was in a | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
suit to start off. He said that buzz his second try. That is not true, I | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
was there, he had to take a shower after that. Talk about competitive. | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
He was so upset, he... He joined me court side. I said "What have you | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
been doing?" He was sweating buckets. He said I have been doing | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
Copa-Uppy. We have been asking you to send in your clips as we will | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
show some of those later on. There is one exceptional young lad, we | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
will see, who I have a feeling is going to be top of the leaderboard. | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
More from that later on, this is the scene outside. It looks a lot nicer | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
now, even blue sky round Wimbledon, so players should be getting on the | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
outside courts very very soon. But over on Centre Court play continues | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
under the roof. Just a few moments ago, here is Eugenie Bouchard with | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
set point in the tie-break. Taking the first set tie-break seven points | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
to five. In 56 minutes. Bouchard takes the | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
opening set. That match is live over on BBC One. And here come the | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
players opening set. That match is live over | :15:32. | :15:31. | |
on BBC One. And here come the for Court One, boy, | :15:32. | :15:32. | |
on BBC One. And here come the for Court One, they have been on court a | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
while. They started on Saturday evening. Came back, | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
while. They started on Saturday completed a few games this | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
afternoon, but on they come again. Ana Ivanovic wasn't happy about | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
being made to play in the dark on Saturday evening but Lisicki has a | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
set up, but it is 5-2 to Ivanovic in the second set. That looks as if | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
that may go the distance. The winner will be back again tomorrow. Tracey | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
you have been watching, you have been watching that match. It is a | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
tough match up between the two. It is. Ivanovic came up today, she | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
faced a break point, that first game, and that was really important | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
for her, she came one a big serve out wide. That is really important | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
for her to get that first game, because Lisicki is so dangerous on | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
grass, we know that this is where Lisicki plays her best tennis, a | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
finalist last year, a semifinalist the year before, it is tough to | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
break her serve, she has one of the most powerful serves on court, but | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
Ivanovic is playing so much better this year, much more confident and | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
dangerous with her forehand, and her serve is more reliable. It is great | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
to see her getting back to her best. But Lisicki, like Murray, thrives | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
here coming to Wimbledon. She loves it. He shes thatn't won two matches | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
back-to-back, she has been struggling with a shoulder injury, | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
she wouldn't seem to have that confident because you don't have | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
conspeck sieve -- consecutive matches but she comes to Wimbledon | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
and becomes a new play e with the big serve and massive forehand. And | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
Grigor Dimitrov against Leonardo Mayer. Dimitrov for the first time | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
in the second week, a lot of people fancy his chances. He is one of the | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
few guy, they don't play on grass very often. Just two weeks a year, | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
two or three weeks a year, he glides over the surface his balance is | :17:27. | :17:34. | |
extraordinary, and that gives him a huge advantage, I would have thought | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
he is is a big I favourite against Mayer, which would bring him into | :17:40. | :17:48. | |
the quarters against Murray or Anderson. That would be an | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
interesting match up. And Tsonga against Djokovic that is one we are | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
looking forward to on centre as well. Absolutely. Djokovic has | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
beaten Tsonga the last ten times in a row, but that being said, Tsonga, | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
Novak talked about Tsonga playing op grass, he said how dangerous he can | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
be, because Tsonga can pick his serves is and he can come in and | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
finish points off at the net. We know how dangerous he can be when he | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
is inspired. Jo seems to be very inspired. A former south-east list | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
here, he seems to be playing inspired tennis, he had a Africa | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
match in the last round. Novak knows he has his hands full today. When | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
you lock at the drawer, particularly in the ladies, it is tough to think | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
of who will come through in the bottom half of the draw. We have | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
Maria Sharapova, Kvitova, she is bottom half. Yes. Kvitova by the | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
way, beating Venus, she said that was the best match she feels she has | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
played on grass since she was the champion in 2011, that was a really | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
tight match, high quality, and it is great to see Kvitova playing so well | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
on grass, when she won here in 2011, beating Maria in the final, I | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
predicted as many people did, the Kvitova would dominate the next | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
year, but she hasn't, so for me now, Maria Sharapova is the favourite now | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
that Serena has lost to Cornet. Kvitova plays Shuai Peng. If she | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
gets through she will face Strycova Strycova. -- Strycova. What a story | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
she is here at the championships, she has beaten three seeded player, | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
including Li Na and Caroline Wozniacki. I think she is pleased. | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
She is a very emotional player. She is. 6-2, 7-5. A huge disappointment | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
again for Caroline Wozniacki, look at this, she can't believe she is | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
through to the last eight. She has never been through to the fourth | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
round. Let us hear what she has had to say about the match. Huge | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
congratulations, you are through to the quarter-finals for the first | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
time, and you have beaten the top play e again, in Caroline Wozniacki, | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
your thoughts? My thoughts, I am shocked. Yes, I am shocked but in | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
the same way I am very very happy, because the way I played together it | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
was really good, and I followed a tactic with my coach, I played a | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
good match today. I am surprised to hear you are shocked. You beat Li | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
Na, prior to Serena Williams's defeat was the shock of the | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
tournament. How come? Did you have that beef? | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
tournament. How come? Did you have that I went for every match with my | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
belief, but I am shocked because it never happened to me, and this is | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
the first time and this is something what I, I was dreaming about, and is | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
going on right now, the dream is here, and it is really something | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
overwhelmed. I am overwhelmed. We about your time out of the game. You | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
have come back so strong. How proud of you of what you have dope since | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
you returned? It has been tough for six month, but like I said before, I | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
didn't want to come back any more, I didn't want to play so much, for one | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
months but like OK, I am going to do, I miss it, I feel miss the | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
feeling of competing. Disighed to go for it. I am glad and I am, I don't | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
want to say I am proud because I don't want to, I like I am proud, | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
no, no. I am happy I decided to play again. Did you make that decision | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
yourself or did you have any anybody you spoke to? I made the decision by | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
myself, I didn't want someone pushing me to play. I had some | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
thoughts and I did it myself. She has so much to be proud of. | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
Absolutely. She has a big aggressive Herve Gaymard. She is dominating | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
matches. She has a different game. She loves the backhand, hits it hard | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
and flat. Forehand a weapon as well. She can finish off points at the | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
net. I love stories like that, because she has been on the tour for | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
a number of year, and all of a sudden out the blue comes through | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
and beats Li Na, the number two in the world, she has struggled in the | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
spring, but the women's game has so much depth right now. The young | :22:17. | :22:27. | |
lady, in Nottingham she lost to a player ranked outside the top 1,000. | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
It gives players the feeling I am not that far away and I can do it if | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
I work hard. I tell you what, we will head to Court Number One, | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
because we have tennis. Where are you supposed to be? I am going to | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
Court Number One, I have my running shoes on. Tracey will head there. We | :22:46. | :22:58. | |
saw them walk on to court. It is Ana Ivanovic and Sabine Lisicki. Tracey | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
will be on her way shortly. Andrew Castle is there. He is going to be | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
ages. It is miles away. Thank you very much indeed for, for that chat | :23:10. | :23:11. | |
and a look round. And now we very much indeed for, for that chat | :23:12. | :23:20. | |
this match, which has had, as you said two suspension, one | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
this match, which has had, as you night, and now, this delay here. It | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
is five -- 5-2. Lisicki serving to stay in the set. Ivanovic won the | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
previous point to take it back to deuce. | :23:34. | :23:45. | |
Now if she the get out of this game and ask Ivanovic to serve for it, it | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
will be interesting. And that is what has happened. | :23:51. | :24:03. | |
Two quick points. And quite a demanding situation for | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
this former worm number one, Ana Ivanovic. She hasn't been in the top | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
ten for a while, but a good year has taken her to number 11, this will | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
test her nerve, serving to make it one set all. | :24:16. | :25:09. | |
That's a real bonus there. Ivanovic sometimes sees the ball | :25:10. | :25:20. | |
toss get away from her. That was good composure on the second serve. | :25:21. | :25:22. | |
Two points away from levelling up. And that's it. We have completed two | :25:23. | :26:08. | |
sets is of this third round encounter. | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
-- two sets is of this. -- two sets of this. | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
One set all and now, certainly an interesting contest. Lisicki has | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
been taking the ball as quickly as she can, and forcing the play. Ana | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
Ivanovic, pretty settled down. Won the first couple of games after the | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
resystemion from Saturday night. And now at one set all. -- | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
resumption. Perhaps we would expect her to play her best tennis. In 2008 | :26:35. | :26:44. | |
she acentury sended to the top of the world rankings, but her last | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
time in top ten was in 2009, so five years ago, and despite all the | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
problems with the ball toss, she has shown the determination which marked | :26:55. | :26:56. | |
her career. One set all here. It is all about taking the big | :26:57. | :27:19. | |
points: And managing to serve out retaining her nerve. The slight | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
advantage of serving first in the decider to Lisicki. | :27:24. | :28:43. | |
She was in tremendous form coming into this come its -- competition. | :28:44. | :28:51. | |
She has been pulled into net many times, but, she has dealt more | :28:52. | :29:07. | |
comfortably with the volleys in the forecourt. Most of this match. | :29:08. | :30:02. | |
to Ana Ivanovic, you have two commit to it because she is going to belt | :30:03. | :30:08. | |
it, given half the chance. So you go for a bit too much, double fault. | :30:09. | :30:19. | |
Accepting pressure on the server. -- exerting. | :30:20. | :31:00. | |
Lisicki, the first German singles woman to go to the final since | :31:01. | :31:13. | |
Steffi Graf. Last year she lost to Marion Bartoli, and she has that | :31:14. | :31:20. | |
wonderful service motion that has given her the first game in this now | :31:21. | :31:27. | |
long third much. Tracy Austin is back with me, we will give you five | :31:28. | :31:32. | |
minutes to recover the long walk. Welcome back. Thank you. | :31:33. | :32:41. | |
It is impossible to defend against when Lisicki takes such big cuts at | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
the ball. Very smart to use that backhand down | :32:46. | :33:27. | |
the line from Lisicki, which tends to move over a little to her left, | :33:28. | :33:30. | |
looking for a forehand. Nicely done. And easy ball to miss. | :33:31. | :33:54. | |
Enjoy the technique on the forehand side, it is a lesson. It is actually | :33:55. | :34:02. | |
a dying art, racket head up, and it didn't drop after contact. | :34:03. | :34:41. | |
Lisicki three break point opportunities, one left. | :34:42. | :35:06. | |
She is as technically proficient on that forehand side, you might say as | :35:07. | :35:16. | |
her countryman Novak Djokovic. It is a sweet and fluid hit, it flies off | :35:17. | :35:24. | |
the racket. Lots of love rich. Back to deuce. | :35:25. | :36:08. | |
Uses her lower body so well. With all of her shots, to create power. | :36:09. | :36:32. | |
First blood in this first set to Sabine Lisicki. She admirably was | :36:33. | :36:53. | |
sticking to her task. Dad on the right-hand side, Richard Lisicki. He | :36:54. | :36:59. | |
will be pleased. And her coach now as well, now that she is not working | :37:00. | :37:01. | |
with Hingis any more. Ivanovic has done a good job of | :37:02. | :37:30. | |
trying to put pressure on Lisicki. If an average has great technique | :37:31. | :37:35. | |
around the net, it has been effective. -- Ivanovic has great | :37:36. | :37:37. | |
technique. That was a bit of an e-mail, that | :37:38. | :38:05. | |
one. It was, because of the surface. It was, because of the surface. It's | :38:06. | :38:10. | |
completely died and never are so effective. -- they are so effective. | :38:11. | :38:57. | |
This is all getting a bit nervy, isn't it? That was... The technical | :38:58. | :39:07. | |
expression might be a brick on the forehand. It is difficult to get a | :39:08. | :39:15. | |
ball from that low position. Difficult to control it. | :39:16. | :39:38. | |
That is some heavy artillery. She can knock her opponents off court. | :39:39. | :39:46. | |
It's so often happens with Lisicki when she is playing well, her | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
opponents have to adjust to her game. | :39:52. | :40:03. | |
She has backed up the break of serve. We have seen in this game and | :40:04. | :40:11. | |
match plenty of tricks so long way go yet. | :40:12. | :40:17. | |
SUE BARKER: We will be back to see if Ana Ivanovic can get herself back | :40:18. | :40:19. | |
into this if Ana Ivanovic can get herself back | :40:20. | :40:23. | |
into this set in a moment. On Centre Court under the roof, Bouchard took | :40:24. | :40:30. | |
the first set but Cornet, who took out Serena Williams, is fighting | :40:31. | :40:39. | |
back. That match is live on BBC1. Also available on the red button, | :40:40. | :40:49. | |
the match between Kvitova and Peng is still on serve. That is available | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
on red button, as is the game between Lopez and Isner. That is | :40:55. | :41:04. | |
only a third round match, so that is happening on Court number three. | :41:05. | :41:05. | |
Back we go to Court Number One. Ana Ivanovic needs to get some sort | :41:06. | :41:22. | |
of foothold in this deciding set. Must win game? Absolutely. Cannot go | :41:23. | :41:33. | |
down a double break with the Lisicki serve. Also, I would think that in | :41:34. | :41:46. | |
the back of Ivanovic's mind, she would have to know that Lisicki can | :41:47. | :41:53. | |
run hot and cold. There can be unforced errors so she has got to | :41:54. | :41:54. | |
keep her calm. Trying to get down so low! You can | :41:55. | :42:40. | |
see the likes of Radwanska doing the splits on the baseline, so too | :42:41. | :42:47. | |
Lisicki but it is difficult to get up from that position. | :42:48. | :43:03. | |
Once again, admirable technique and a high backhand volley on dropping | :43:04. | :43:11. | |
ball again, keeping the racket head up, hitting through the ball. Nicely | :43:12. | :43:14. | |
put away. Just quickly, what happened to Ana | :43:15. | :44:04. | |
Ivanovic after she was the number one in the world? It took her a long | :44:05. | :44:11. | |
time to get back after that, she was as low as 65. The expectations were | :44:12. | :44:15. | |
too much for her. She was about 19 years old, and Justin Henin took | :44:16. | :44:31. | |
herself off the computer. Therefore when Ivanovic won she became number | :44:32. | :44:36. | |
one in the world after taking that title in 2008 and it all came too | :44:37. | :44:42. | |
quickly. She came to Wimbledon and lost early. For a number of years | :44:43. | :44:49. | |
she looked panicked on Court, indecisive. | :44:50. | :45:04. | |
It is her seventh double fault. When her toss goes astray she has to | :45:05. | :45:41. | |
reach too far behind her. Certainly a -- the attention can be | :45:42. | :46:18. | |
the most difficult thing to get used to for any young athlete, as they | :46:19. | :46:23. | |
get to the top of the game or achieve things that they have | :46:24. | :46:27. | |
previously only dream about. If she was a teenager, it really takes some | :46:28. | :46:33. | |
adjustment. Ana Ivanovic's personal life has always been in the | :46:34. | :46:38. | |
spotlight as well, I don't know if she is still seeing a golfer but it | :46:39. | :46:46. | |
is difficult to handle, is it not? How old were you when you won the US | :46:47. | :46:53. | |
Open? 16. I was still going to school so that helped to give me | :46:54. | :46:58. | |
some balance and it was a gradual process, I was in the top ten, the | :46:59. | :47:04. | |
top five, started beating Martina and Christie and it didn't come out | :47:05. | :47:10. | |
of the blue. It wasn't easy though. -- Chrissie. That is a gimme point | :47:11. | :47:33. | |
from Ivanovic. At times she can appear, a bit like | :47:34. | :48:03. | |
Simon in the men's game, frail on court. Six foot one, tremendously | :48:04. | :48:05. | |
athletic. The last thing the German player | :48:06. | :48:27. | |
wants is to get involved in any rallies from the back of the court, | :48:28. | :48:34. | |
developing any rhythm for Ivanovic. Doing a great job here. Lisicki | :48:35. | :48:39. | |
likes shorter points, that's why she likes the surface. | :48:40. | :49:02. | |
UMPIRE: On the left service line, the ball was called in. | :49:03. | :49:38. | |
Ivanovic not ready and prepared for that second shot. Negative emotions, | :49:39. | :49:48. | |
so it is smart to clear her thoughts on this critical point. | :49:49. | :50:18. | |
UMPIRE: New balls, please. That really is a blow for Ivanovic, | :50:19. | :50:31. | |
Lisicki smothering the ball. You can see why she was a finalist last | :50:32. | :50:35. | |
year, and has beaten Serena and Radwanska. To great surprise that | :50:36. | :50:41. | |
she could not repeat that form in the final against Marion Bartoli. | :50:42. | :50:47. | |
She has played a super-smart much. Saturday night this match started, | :50:48. | :50:54. | |
and here we are on Monday, still at it. Dad and camp, delighted. Mum as | :50:55. | :51:13. | |
well, right there. A server like this love is new tennis balls. | :51:14. | :51:18. | |
Adding insult to injury for Ivanovic. | :51:19. | :51:44. | |
Remember last year, Andrew, she was down 3-love in the third to Williams | :51:45. | :51:56. | |
and the same against Radwanska. She was very mentally tough. | :51:57. | :52:51. | |
What a way to finish! Her seventh ace! Certainly an overpowering | :52:52. | :52:59. | |
performance but also subtlety as well, able to use the drop shot and | :53:00. | :53:05. | |
real grass court know-how. How does it feel to be in the fourth round? I | :53:06. | :53:12. | |
just get the feeling Sabine Lisicki wished all of the tour events were | :53:13. | :53:19. | |
played on this surface. It is perfectly suited to her game with | :53:20. | :53:23. | |
the big serve, powerful ground strokes, and she seems to move so | :53:24. | :53:29. | |
well honoured as well. And the smile is a winner, people love that every | :53:30. | :53:38. | |
day of the week. It has been a grand year for Ana Ivanovic. This is not | :53:39. | :53:48. | |
the surface she would pick to play Lisicki on. It has been an | :53:49. | :53:52. | |
entertaining match. The Saturday night version, the early afternoon | :53:53. | :53:58. | |
version, and this is well. And the draw is fascinating now. It could | :53:59. | :54:12. | |
all happen again for Lisicki, couldn't it? Yes, it is wide open | :54:13. | :54:19. | |
for her. The highest ranked player left in the draw is number three, a | :54:20. | :54:24. | |
Romanian. But you pick Maria Sharapova to go through from this | :54:25. | :54:31. | |
half? I do, she has so much confidence, recently winning the | :54:32. | :54:35. | |
French Open title and she looks fresh to me. So often French Open | :54:36. | :54:45. | |
winners don't have the energy at Wimbledon but this woman here always | :54:46. | :54:49. | |
has the energy and she is such a favourite because she shows her | :54:50. | :54:54. | |
emotions on her sleeve. Always with a smile, even if she is losing she | :54:55. | :54:59. | |
will let you know how she is feeling. Look at the little girl in | :55:00. | :55:16. | |
the purple heart, -- hat, there is no element of Lisicki she has not | :55:17. | :55:22. | |
noticed. This is a champion, and I would like to be on this Court One | :55:23. | :55:29. | |
day. It is lovely, isn't it? I'm not sure she has had hers signed yet. | :55:30. | :55:33. | |
People keep coming over the top. That is the selfie. Way more | :55:34. | :55:45. | |
important. I think the little girl might belong to the gentleman there | :55:46. | :55:49. | |
and they got the shot they were looking for. We could see a lot more | :55:50. | :55:54. | |
of Sabine Lisicki in this tournament. Comfortable indeed. Such | :55:55. | :56:06. | |
a lovely schedule on the second Monday of the Championships, looking | :56:07. | :56:11. | |
forward to both men's and women's matches, the doubles, the seniors, | :56:12. | :56:18. | |
the juniors. Great tennis here at the Championships. We have just seen | :56:19. | :56:23. | |
Sabine Lisicki win 6-1 in the final set. | :56:24. | :56:28. | |
Congratulations, we had darkness and rain, have you ever taken so long to | :56:29. | :56:37. | |
complete a match? Actually, no. It was quite fitting, come back, play, | :56:38. | :56:51. | |
rain, finally finish it. You did, and Ivanovic came out all guns | :56:52. | :56:56. | |
blazing but you don't so deep and found so much for the final set. It | :56:57. | :57:02. | |
was a good match, she is such a good player. I was ready and she had some | :57:03. | :57:08. | |
amazing winners when we came out the first time. Then the rain came in, | :57:09. | :57:13. | |
then I think we were both hitting the winners. I ended up playing a | :57:14. | :57:20. | |
few more. In the next round you play someone who you previously played in | :57:21. | :57:25. | |
the Olympics, how do you take that in your stride? I had a great few | :57:26. | :57:30. | |
matches here so she is playing well on grass, she has a big serve so I | :57:31. | :57:36. | |
have to be ready but I am looking forward to another match. It is so | :57:37. | :57:42. | |
much fun to play out there. Are you feeling as good as last year? Yes, | :57:43. | :57:52. | |
the fans make me feel so good here. They're cheering gives me so much | :57:53. | :57:59. | |
energy. Congratulations, well done. SUE BARKER: What a performance from | :58:00. | :58:04. | |
Sabine Lisicki, she has not had a great year so far but she is finding | :58:05. | :58:08. | |
her best form here as she did one year ago when she got through to the | :58:09. | :58:13. | |
final. It will be a busy time for her, back on court tomorrow. Well | :58:14. | :58:23. | |
done to Sabine Lisicki on Court Number One. Over on Centre Court, | :58:24. | :58:29. | |
this match is live on BBC One, and Bouchard of Canada is just two | :58:30. | :58:35. | |
points away from a place in the quarterfinals. That much is live on | :58:36. | :58:41. | |
BBC1. Court number three, this is live on the red button, three | :58:42. | :58:52. | |
tie-break sets, no break of serve. That one looks like it is going the | :58:53. | :58:57. | |
distance, it is live on the red button. Plenty of play happening | :58:58. | :59:04. | |
here, I'm delighted to say the rain clouds have moved away so now we are | :59:05. | :59:10. | |
going to take you to Court Number Two to see Kvitova against Peng, and | :59:11. | :59:16. | |
Kvitova has just taken the first set, served it out six - three. | :59:17. | :59:26. | |
Let's join our commentators there. The first set didn't cause Kvitova | :59:27. | :59:33. | |
too many headaches out here, just the one break of serve to go five - | :59:34. | :59:40. | |
three up, then she served for the set, just needed one set point, | :59:41. | :59:42. | |
burned herself three. -- burned It makes such a difference when she | :59:43. | :00:50. | |
gets that first serve into play. Gives herself the chance to play | :00:51. | :01:19. | |
straight into the space. Finally a bit of a smile from Peng. | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
She needed that to start the second set in that manner. She did and | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
again not the best drop with have seen from Petra Kvitova. She hasn't | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
been successful with that particular shot in this match, but this is the | :01:38. | :01:47. | |
best response we have had off it from Shuai Peng. | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
A drop shot off a drop She really middles that one, Peng | :01:50. | :03:10. | |
Shuai. Came right on to her, barely had to | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
move. Very compact of that take back. | :03:17. | :03:33. | |
Kvitova, although her first serve percentage hasn't been great | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
throughout the course of the match. She is yet to lose a point behind | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
that first serve. Powerful again from Kvitova. It | :03:38. | :04:17. | |
levels things up in the first set. It doevent have to be in the corner, | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
that is the the thing. It is such a heavy strike. Hard, straight through | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
the middle is just as effective. Kvitova's coach looking very | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
relaxed. He has to be one of the most chilled out coaches on the | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
women's tour They have been playing back garden tennis according to | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Kvitova's Twitter account in the house they are sharing in Wimbledon. | :04:43. | :05:07. | |
Off forehand return has Peng Shuai stuck in concrete. | :05:08. | :06:01. | |
Interesting choice of shot from Peng Shuai. | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
She has really pulled so far off the court, attempting to drop the ball | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
short. Not getting the job done with that. | :06:14. | :06:50. | |
Up ball was called out. Let us have a closer look at this then. | :06:51. | :07:01. | |
Hawk-Eye is quite happy: She has every right to be annoyed with that | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
line call. She gets another first serve. | :07:05. | :07:13. | |
She would like to hang on to the one she just had. | :07:14. | :07:39. | |
Early chance for Kvitova to get the break. Potentially march on to the | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
quarter-finals. Peng was raeltly retch reaching for | :07:48. | :08:07. | |
that and Kvitova gets the early break. She moves aend head in this | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
second set, two games to one. -- Peng was really reaching for that. | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
It is all going very smoothly out here for Petra Kvitova. | :08:22. | :08:30. | |
She has been so strong on her own service games, I mine, if she can | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
keep up the serving, she's had going throughout the course of this match, | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
I don't see Peng Shuai breaking her. As much as Peng Shuai can hang in, | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
we haven't had too many lengthy rallies, but it is how is she going | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
to create some daylight between herself and the number six seed? At | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
the moment, she is looking fairly composed. Too much is worrying her. | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
-- not too much is worrying her. For Peng Shuai it is an uphill battle, | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
but plenty of people in Court Two to watch this one. Peng Shuai has never | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
been to a quarter-final of after Grand Slam before. | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
-- of a Grand Slam before. Kvitova very familiar, area -- | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
familiar face. That is how strong her first serve | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
has been. The first serve percentage from | :09:34. | :09:47. | |
Kvitova hasn't been high, it sat 38% at the moment, but, when it does go | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
in, she wins the point. Still, yet to lose a point behind | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
that first serve. I spoke too soon. It's broken. | :10:00. | :10:18. | |
100 percent record gone. And then back to business. | :10:19. | :10:41. | |
Looking to march on through, Kvitova. Game point for 3-1. Leads | :10:42. | :10:56. | |
by a set to love. Impressive. She has her sights on | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
the quarter-final. With that opens up a 3-1 lead. | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
It was always she might be the number one doubles | :11:07. | :11:25. | |
player in the world but up against Kvitova. When she does come out with | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
firing a first serve like that, very hard to reply. | :11:28. | :12:15. | |
Oh no! Agonising She placed that serve so well. Suddenly at 30 all, | :12:16. | :13:10. | |
3-1 down. Things Right on the line. No doubt about | :13:11. | :13:59. | |
that. She does hold but Kvitova still a break up and she leads 3-2. | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
well, on the right-hand side there, on top of Peng Shuai's bag, that | :14:02. | :14:14. | |
little pink object, looks like an elephant from this angle but I can | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
tell you. That is huge. That is a lucky cow, believe it or not. I | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
believe it is supposed to be a cat. She is supposed to be carrying a | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
lucky cow because she was born in the year of the cow. | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
But it does look like an elephant from here. It does, doesn't it. That | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
was a trunk I would say. Maybe the cow seized to bring her -- | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
ceased to bring her luck, I would have thought this run towards the | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
the quarter-final, is that, that is a rhino? I think it is an elephant. | :14:54. | :15:03. | |
I am sure she was born in the year of the cow, 1986. Certainly a run | :15:04. | :15:12. | |
wards the quarter-finals means stepping out as a doubles player, | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
she has been in the shadow of Li Na as Chinese singles players so much | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
and it has raised her profile on the singles circuit somewhat. | :15:26. | :15:56. | |
Peng Shuai has a lot of work to do here. | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
What a serve. What a serve. It has just been so effective in | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
this match, that serve out wide, from Kvitova. Look at the way it | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
just keeps moving away from Peng Shuai. | :16:17. | :16:29. | |
Well, that sud season That serve from Kvitova straight | :16:30. | :16:58. | |
into the strike zone of Peng Shuai. As soon as the serve went out, the | :16:59. | :17:00. | |
angle opened up for Kvitova. The serve out wide when it work, it | :17:01. | :17:10. | |
is as if the ball is heat seeking and curving away. Trying to finds | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
its target. Racing away from the opponent. | :17:17. | :17:44. | |
Kvitova looking at a 4-2 lead here. Nicely set up by Kvitova again, the | :17:45. | :17:59. | |
serve. Doing the job, and she moves ahead 4-2 in the second set. Getting | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
ever closer to a place in the quarter-finals. | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
Certainly not being put through the ring other tested in the same way as | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
she was when he intent up against Venus Williams. It quite a different | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
match. Quite a different encounter. . -- it is quite a different match. | :18:22. | :19:57. | |
Peng Shuai is in danger of letting this match slipway quickly. She is | :19:58. | :20:07. | |
just beaten by the depth and pace that is coming off Kvitova's racket. | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
A little too much from Peng Shuai to deal with. | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
That was better. That was better from Peng Shuai. | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
Coming up with something deep of her own. | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
Is She is a set and break down, she has to keep swinging away and take | :20:29. | :20:29. | |
her chances. Another game for Kvitova. She moves | :20:30. | :20:47. | |
ahead 5-2 in the second set. She will have new balls with which to | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
come out and serve for the match. The draw here, quarter-final, is | :20:50. | :21:40. | |
beckoning for Petra Kvitova. Against Barbora Strycova. Should she win. | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
The bottom half of the draw, now, Caroline Wozniacki has been knocked | :21:46. | :22:02. | |
out, Radwanska has to be a threat. Safarova came through today against | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
another Czech player. Czech tennis in the womens is on the up at the | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
moment. Absolutely. Here is Petra Kvitova serving for a place in the | :22:15. | :22:25. | |
quarter-finals. That game could go rather quickly, I | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
have the feeling. It really has been an impressive | :22:29. | :22:57. | |
serving disa play from Petra Kvitova, and first and second serve. | :22:58. | :23:13. | |
-- display. Play from Petra Kvitova, and first | :23:14. | :23:15. | |
and second serve. -- display. I was going to say three match | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
points but we do have a challenge from Peng Shuai. I think this is | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
wishful thinking from her. What do you have to lose? You may ask the | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
question. She is now three match points down. | :23:31. | :23:48. | |
No! She may it. Kvitova was almost disbelieving. | :23:49. | :24:32. | |
Kvitova, the 2011 champion, into the quarter-finals. | :24:33. | :24:54. | |
And she has barely been troubled really. Straight sets. | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
And she is into the quarter-finals for the fifth year in a row at | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
Wimbledon. She is so pleased to be there too. | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
That was an impressive performance from Petra Kvitova. She was rarely | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
put under too much pressure from Peng Shuai. Just had too much power. | :25:17. | :25:26. | |
The lucky elephant or cow didn't do much good. Kvitova must believe she | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
has a good chance of lifting a second Wimbledon champion. | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
has a good chance of lifting a bottom half of draw has opened #u7 | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
for her. It is there for the It is a match which has lasted one | :25:38. | :25:54. | |
hour and one minute. The crowd have still enjoyed seeing a former | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
champion in action on Court No. Two, we had a lengthy rain delay before | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
the match started. The players appeared. Had to disappear and keep | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
themselves occupied. As did the crowd. They came back and were | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
treated to a fairly dominant display by Petra Kvitova. | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
Her first serve didn't always go in but when it it did it worked well | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
for her, she won so many of the points, as we mentioned on that | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
first serve. She will hope that will be a feature that continues deeper | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
into the draw. Intark so we are leaving on Court | :26:35. | :26:50. | |
Two. On Centre Court Andy Murray has walked on to court. He is about to | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
start his Fourth Round match against Kevin Anderson, the big server from | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
South Africa who has hit 63 ace already in this tournament. Andy | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
under way on centre court, that match is live on BBC One. We are a | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
heading to number one top see Grigor Dimitrov. It is on serve. He is | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
seeded 11th but he was the champion at Queens and a great grass court | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
pedigree. He is up against Leonardo Mayer, so let us join our | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
commentators Peter Fleming and Andrew Cotter. You can see why | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
people are getting so excited about the prospect of Dimitrov, but again | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
he is realising that talent. He has looked very very comfortable so far. | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
Especially on his serve. No breaks but Dimitrov looks far the stronger | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
player. Yes, that is fine, lost just the one | :27:43. | :27:49. | |
point on his own serve and got to deuce, on Mayer's first service game | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
and appears to have a good case, shall we say, for breaking through | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
at some point. Mayer will need to serve his very best. | :28:02. | :28:28. | |
throughout the tournament. About 80% of the points when he put | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
the first serve in players so it is is a good weapon. | :28:33. | :29:20. | |
Once again Dimitrov instinctively moving in, when he gets Mayer out of | :29:21. | :29:27. | |
position. A nice split step, has a lot of court covered. | :29:28. | :30:58. | |
His best service game so far. Getting steadily better on his | :30:59. | :31:15. | |
serve, Leonardo Mayer. His coach watching on. | :31:16. | :31:27. | |
Had Mayer challenged that ball, he would have found some joy. It was on | :31:28. | :32:07. | |
the line. Unlucky. stronger, but he is finding more joy | :32:08. | :32:36. | |
on Dimitrov's serve. He would have been nervous to start the match. | :32:37. | :32:38. | |
Settling down now. Impressed with Dimitrov's serving | :32:39. | :33:01. | |
throughout this tournament. In pressured situations, he has come up | :33:02. | :33:03. | |
with the goods, as he did there. They displayed towards the end of | :33:04. | :33:34. | |
that service came from Dimitrov. -- a display. That is how you want to | :33:35. | :33:40. | |
react at 15-30, three bombs. Thank you very much. No problem. We have | :33:41. | :33:49. | |
been talking about Dimitrov ever since he was compared to Federer. | :33:50. | :33:54. | |
Said he was better than Federer at the age of 17, 18. He has had to | :33:55. | :34:00. | |
live with that pressure. What a sadistic thing to say! That will be | :34:01. | :34:08. | |
easy to live up to! Yeah, but he is starting to get there. | :34:09. | :34:11. | |
Quarterfinalist at the Australian Open this year. This is as far as he | :34:12. | :34:16. | |
has been at Wimbledon. His coach will add toughness. He has seen it | :34:17. | :34:22. | |
before with other players. We saw the win at | :34:23. | :34:24. | |
before with other players. We saw has won this season. Of course, his | :34:25. | :34:30. | |
first career victory was in Stockholm last October. | :34:31. | :34:34. | |
first career victory was in was a springboard for him. The match | :34:35. | :34:42. | |
at the Australian Open, another milestone, taking Nadal into a tight | :34:43. | :34:48. | |
four sets. That was the first time in a major but he showed he can hang | :34:49. | :34:55. | |
with the best. You add to the natural talent the knowledge, I can | :34:56. | :34:59. | |
do this, and you have a pretty formidable opponent. | :35:00. | :36:20. | |
Well, he has served more place-macros in the tournament than | :36:21. | :36:33. | |
Dimitrov has. Considerably more. -- aces in the tournament. | :36:34. | :37:20. | |
A couple of sparrows having an aerial battle around Court One for a | :37:21. | :37:30. | |
moment. They have now gone off to brawl elsewhere. | :37:31. | :37:59. | |
Thinking about it, well, he is going to challenge. It was not a gesture | :38:00. | :38:08. | |
of any great evidence in this challenge. It is going to Mayer if | :38:09. | :38:16. | |
it is wide. Worth asking the question. We remain on serve. As you | :38:17. | :38:27. | |
said, he is settling into the match OK, Leonardo Mayer. He would have | :38:28. | :38:31. | |
been nervous. This is as far as he has been in heavy Ali any Grand | :38:32. | :38:44. | |
Slam. -- in any Grand Slam. He has settled into a wonderful rhythm. 72% | :38:45. | :38:50. | |
of his first serves have gone in. He is being aggressive. | :38:51. | :40:16. | |
A couple of errors now of the forehand. | :40:17. | :40:39. | |
And because it was 30-30, Dimitrov pretty conservative with the | :40:40. | :40:53. | |
approach shot. That was the opening that Mayer needed. | :40:54. | :41:26. | |
Wow. Second serve right smack in the corner of the box. For all his | :41:27. | :41:37. | |
relative dominance, the first break point of the match went to Mayer. | :41:38. | :41:42. | |
Again, the answer from Dimitrov was good. | :41:43. | :42:03. | |
In the blue, the coach of Mayer. I am sure he will be pleased with his | :42:04. | :42:13. | |
player's aggression. He is trying to impose himself. | :42:14. | :42:31. | |
A rather meet end for Mayer. But it is a hold for Dimitrov. -- meek end. | :42:32. | :42:42. | |
The flag bearer for Argentinian tennis here, Leonardo Mayer. Del | :42:43. | :42:50. | |
Potro not here. A couple of first-round exit as well. I think | :42:51. | :42:58. | |
the football is taking... I understand there are far fewer | :42:59. | :43:04. | |
Argentinian jealous here with the football and without Del Potro. He | :43:05. | :43:12. | |
is going well, Mayer -- Argentinian journalists. He will have to play | :43:13. | :43:19. | |
his very best to upset Dimitrov. Thus far, he is | :43:20. | :43:27. | |
his very best to upset Dimitrov. not far off it. The difference use | :43:28. | :43:29. | |
his very best to upset Dimitrov. you have to wear for grass, you can | :43:30. | :43:34. | |
still slide. A lot of players would go into the slide worried they could | :43:35. | :43:39. | |
not come out of it without being carried off on a stretcher. Dimitrov | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
is one of the more flexible players. Becoming one of the stronger players | :43:46. | :43:51. | |
as well. One shot at Queen's where it was almost full splits and a | :43:52. | :43:54. | |
little volley will stop a thing of beauty. -- a little volley. A thing | :43:55. | :44:05. | |
of beauty. He showed us graceful moves like that day after day. After | :44:06. | :44:11. | |
surviving a scare on his serve, he can now put the pressure on Mayer. | :44:12. | :44:42. | |
few errors along with the winners because that is how he needs to | :44:43. | :44:48. | |
play. He cannot afford to be completely safe. | :44:49. | :44:57. | |
What happened there? Did not look like a winner but it was. It should | :44:58. | :45:11. | |
not have been. What was Mayer doing? A brief fit of laziness. Mental | :45:12. | :45:15. | |
laziness, I think. They talk about it quite a lot, | :45:16. | :45:57. | |
suddenly Mayer switched off on the previous point, but the very best | :45:58. | :46:01. | |
players will not switch off. A little drop-in level and he is being | :46:02. | :46:04. | |
punished by Dimitrov. Wonderful from Dimitrov. An example | :46:05. | :46:30. | |
of his flexibility, poise and shotmaking. All of the great | :46:31. | :46:37. | |
players, the very best, they are great defenders. Dimitrov is | :46:38. | :46:42. | |
starting to show us that he too can play that side of the ball. That | :46:43. | :46:47. | |
defence gives him the right to attack now. | :46:48. | :47:11. | |
That was an aggressive second serve, 107 mph-macro. Still one more set | :47:12. | :47:22. | |
point for Grigor Dimitrov -- 107mph. The number 11 seed has the first | :47:23. | :47:42. | |
set. He took it well in that game. Just stepped up his level slightly. | :47:43. | :47:48. | |
Mayer dropped a little bit. That was the difference. Exactly. There was | :47:49. | :47:54. | |
nothing in that set. It was just, really, that one point. Lose the | :47:55. | :48:01. | |
first or second point in the game, when Mayer approached the net, | :48:02. | :48:06. | |
Dimitrov hit what looked to be a pretty tame backhand up the line and | :48:07. | :48:12. | |
Mayer did not even flinch. Perhaps there was something in the way | :48:13. | :48:19. | |
Dimitrov shaped up for the shot that made him think he was going to chip | :48:20. | :48:27. | |
it across court. But when, you can be in trouble. Not a huge amount in | :48:28. | :48:36. | |
it. Mayer with a few more unforced errors. But a pretty close set. On | :48:37. | :48:45. | |
grass especially, statistics are if not meaningless sometimes | :48:46. | :48:51. | |
irrelevant. Just because all you need to do is hold serve. Our start | :48:52. | :48:59. | |
the league statistics man is sobbing quietly. What do they say? Lies, | :49:00. | :49:06. | |
damn lies and... Statistics. They give a little bit of a guide. There | :49:07. | :49:12. | |
are important categories to look out for. The amount of first serves, | :49:13. | :49:16. | |
generally speaking, you land your first serve and you will have a very | :49:17. | :49:24. | |
good chance. Super slow motion is designed for players like Grigor | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
Dimitrov and Federer. It is the balance and the poise. A bit gloomy | :49:31. | :49:34. | |
overhead again. I am going to ask you who the | :49:35. | :49:59. | |
Bulgarian number two men's play areas. -- player is. Can you think | :50:00. | :50:07. | |
of a name? I can't even read it! The world | :50:08. | :50:28. | |
number 327. It just shows what sort of an achievement it is for Dimitrov | :50:29. | :50:30. | |
to get where he is. It is the same as Andy Murray in his | :50:31. | :50:42. | |
position. There are major inquests as to what is happening in their | :50:43. | :50:46. | |
tennis. Even the women's side, apart from the sisters, it is not... Not a | :50:47. | :50:55. | |
real pedigree of tennis in Bulgaria. Hard as nails! | :50:56. | :51:09. | |
What happened there! We will endeavour to find out. He does not | :51:10. | :51:19. | |
like the ball. I think it might be an old one. Or a dead one. One of | :51:20. | :51:25. | |
the two. I think it was in Miami when someone | :51:26. | :52:05. | |
fainted in the heat, not at the site of Dimitrov, but he helped her to | :52:06. | :52:12. | |
the side and he was the hero for the day. | :52:13. | :52:22. | |
The second set is under love for Dimitrov. Everyone getting | :52:23. | :52:34. | |
excited about Dimitrov because he is a possible next quarterfinal | :52:35. | :52:40. | |
opponent for Kevin Anderson. Or Andy Murray, should he come through. | :52:41. | :52:47. | |
Who? ! It is so nice to see a guy with this much talent start to come | :52:48. | :52:54. | |
through, start to put in the hard work and gain the belief required to | :52:55. | :53:01. | |
step up and compete with the very best. How would you come through in | :53:02. | :53:06. | |
a country with no real rich tennis history? His father is a tennis | :53:07. | :53:11. | |
coach and was very keen to get Grigor started down that path. | :53:12. | :53:25. | |
Extraordinary effort to get there from Grigor Dimitrov. Lovely touch | :53:26. | :53:31. | |
from Leonardo Mayer. Not many players can do this. All to no | :53:32. | :53:40. | |
avail, but have a look. I can do that! You would still be down there. | :53:41. | :53:46. | |
With a crane, they would have to get me. St John ambulance. | :53:47. | :54:03. | |
And again. He hit that with a full swing, loads of top-spin. He is | :54:04. | :54:23. | |
feeling it right now. Very confident. | :54:24. | :54:59. | |
Early pressure in the second set on the Argentinian serve. | :55:00. | :56:00. | |
SUE BARKER: Still a long way to go in this match. We will leave it on | :56:01. | :56:08. | |
BBC Two because we are heading to Centre Court. If you want to | :56:09. | :56:12. | |
continue watching this, you can. It is live on the red button. We will | :56:13. | :56:18. | |
continue to update you on BBC Two. We are heading to Centre Court | :56:19. | :56:21. | |
because Andy Murray is up against Kevin Anderson. He has a break of | :56:22. | :56:28. | |
serve, leading 4-3 in the opening set. Let us join our commentators, | :56:29. | :56:32. | |
Tim Henman, John McEnroe and Mark Petchey. | :56:33. | :56:40. | |
Murray looking good but not as good as the guy who has been stealing | :56:41. | :56:44. | |
around in Tim Henman's wardrobe! Not making too many inroads in the | :56:45. | :57:06. | |
Murray service game at the moment. Got to deuce once. Reliant on Murray | :57:07. | :57:10. | |
not serving well. JOHN MCENROE: Gets it done. Credit | :57:11. | :57:44. | |
to him, took him a while to get comfortable. 6ft numeric date tall. | :57:45. | :57:55. | |
-- 6ft numeric date. He has been battling out there. Best tennis of | :57:56. | :57:59. | |
his life, he has been playing. Murray changed his mind. He had | :58:00. | :58:15. | |
already given away the drop shot. Anderson was starting to move | :58:16. | :58:20. | |
forward. It looks like he would hit it deep. Federer is an expert at | :58:21. | :58:24. | |
that. Then he went back to it and Anderson was on it. | :58:25. | :58:44. | |
That was 106, John. You talked about the serve that got him at deuce at | :58:45. | :58:56. | |
98. Is that anticipation? Is that something you can teach? I don't | :58:57. | :59:01. | |
know if you can teach that. You need the spring to deal with that. The | :59:02. | :59:08. | |
reach is there. Murray likes to go big out wide. But you have got to | :59:09. | :59:13. | |
really study it. You would think with all of the practice sessions, | :59:14. | :59:17. | |
he would be able to see that serve coming before it was too late. | :59:18. | :59:19. | |
Credit Murray's disguise. He is one of the most diligent | :59:20. | :59:48. | |
workers on the tour. He subscribes to the training on the computer as | :59:49. | :59:51. | |
well to try to improve the reaction times. He has certainly gone the | :59:52. | :59:59. | |
extra mile in his career, Anderson, to get every last ounce out of his | :00:00. | :00:01. | |
game. There it is again. Absolutely | :00:02. | :00:13. | |
respect for him for doing everything possible. I don't think he can do | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
anything about the sheer speed. are pretty close. You speak to these | :00:21. | :01:11. | |
guys, they all feel he is the quickest out there. You same boat. | :01:12. | :01:23. | |
You read that in the papers? I did, I am not going to say which one. | :01:24. | :01:33. | |
The difference in that speed could be the difference between Murray and | :01:34. | :01:50. | |
Anderson. That is how fast you same bolt -- Usain Bolt is. | :01:51. | :02:15. | |
We'll have all our statistics in front of us, was it an unforced | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
error or a forced error? A forced error, an excellent second serve. | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
Caught in a little bit off-guard, it kicked more than he thought. -- | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
caught him a little off-guard. Anderson has clearly played better | :02:35. | :02:59. | |
than he did in the first 20 minutes. He has settled in. It is nice to see | :03:00. | :03:10. | |
him playing up to his ability. He throws down the hardest serve of the | :03:11. | :03:20. | |
match. Get set up to 128. He is going to make marry at least serve | :03:21. | :03:21. | |
this out. -- Murray. Such a testing return, Murray well | :03:22. | :03:58. | |
inside his baseline but up the middle. Anderson, although he works | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
so hard on his agility, unable to contort his body out of the way. | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
Surprised he let that go. Interesting pass by Murray. What a | :04:12. | :04:26. | |
row was this from? One of yours! I can relate to that. A throwback. -- | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
which era. Surprised Murray with that bit of | :04:34. | :05:20. | |
subtlety. He does force Andy to serve out this opening set. We will | :05:21. | :05:29. | |
be back to see Andy Murray serve for the second set, meanwhile matches | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
continue elsewhere. Grigor Dimitrov is 3-2 up against Leonardo Maher. | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
That match is on the red button. Over on Court three, Radwanska, | :05:41. | :05:55. | |
3-3. That is also on the red button. Matches continue on Monday, but our | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
focus is on Centre Court. Andy Murray would have been | :05:58. | :06:13. | |
conscious of the Challenger today. He is starting to find his feet | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
among the big boys in the tournament, Anderson. | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
Both players have come out pretty much as expected. Murray continues | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
to play excellent tennis, Anderson has found himself forced stop the | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
problem is it looks like he will be down eight set. -- a set. One last | :06:35. | :06:44. | |
attempt to level things here. He has been worried repeatedly by | :06:45. | :07:09. | |
that first serve. You would think he would say, I am getting the gist of | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
this, I am going to cover the one out wide. | :07:14. | :07:43. | |
That is well played. He absolutely hits a bit beautiful ball, for a big | :07:44. | :07:58. | |
guy, gets down nice and slow. It was a fantastic shot, but you still felt | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
three or four shots before he could have come into the net and tried to | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
make the rally a little shorter. One of the few points he has won. Steps | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
over to his right. Doesn't look like it. | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
That is where Murray wants to see him, back behind the baseline, | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
giving him that angle. Absolutely should continue to take it. Anderson | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
comes up with the solution. Continues to go on that forehand | :08:36. | :09:00. | |
side and erode the confidence of Anderson on the return. Probably | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
keep going up the middle. No. You can see how important it was it | :09:03. | :10:13. | |
brings a smile to the face of Sir Alex Ferguson a fellow Scot. He is | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
in the lead. Just got a sense in the opening set | :10:16. | :10:30. | |
that may be Anderson in some of those exchanges, going back to | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
Andy's forehand a little bit. I think this is another case, we | :10:37. | :10:47. | |
have seen a hundreds of times before, where a guy walks out on | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
this great court, it is hard to think clearly. You just looked up | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
and the next thing you know to our down 2-0, 3-1. You battled yourself, | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
you battled the guy who is a defending champion, a great player, | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
and you are trying to work out how to win. You want to get some rhythm, | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
you want to get some confidence. You are pretty much going to play it's | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
fairly safe until you get your game going. Now he has, but he has not | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
been able to bring the thinking cap to things yet. Everything he has | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
done to Murray he has expected, seen it all before. That is what we | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
expected, we expected Murray to take advantage. Now with the first set | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
under his belt, a big question with a lot of the top players these days | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
is is there a plan B? I think there is scope for Anderson to sneak to | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
the net a little more, whether it is behind the serve or an aggressive | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
ground strokes or Andy Murray's second serve. He needs to try and | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
bring a different aspect to the game. | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
He has had a couple of days off, that should help him. He had a far | :12:05. | :12:14. | |
more difficult time. Legs should be reasonably well recharged. He needs | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
to get ahead here, early. Murray did a good job in the first | :12:19. | :13:02. | |
set of getting the early break. Anderson has to try and create a bit | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
of scoreboard pressure here, keep his nose in front and hold onto the | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
first new service games. -- first view. | :13:14. | :13:23. | |
So comfortable returning that serve. 127 miles an hour and Murray made it | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
look like 107 mph. That hurts! Happy Christmas. That is | :13:32. | :14:00. | |
hard to believe. It will be difficult to dig himself out of this | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
one at 0-40. Big and deep, nothing Murray could | :14:03. | :15:12. | |
do about that. There is Neville Godwin, Kevin's wife on the left of | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
your picture, Kelsey O'Neal. In the first set Murray had 0-40 and came | :15:20. | :15:29. | |
back, is history going to repeat itself? | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
This will be big if he can take out of this, especially | :15:36. | :15:44. | |
This will be big if he can take out missed that zero - 30, to shrug that | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
off. That was a nice paste point from | :15:47. | :17:26. | |
Murray, did not feel he was under any pressure. Murray will make | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
significant headway if he can get this break point in the second set. | :17:33. | :17:54. | |
Surprised he chose to slice the forehand. If he had hit a solid | :17:55. | :18:08. | |
forehand either side, it seemed like the game was his. | :18:09. | :18:35. | |
You notice when he hit his return, he started to move forward and got | :18:36. | :18:51. | |
right on this ball. Anderson hit a pretty good pass, but he was in an | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
excellent volleying position. This break point chance of this game | :18:59. | :18:59. | |
already. -- fifth break point. We were having a bit of a debate | :19:00. | :19:31. | |
about the best volleyer in the top 100, not a lot to choose from. I | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
think Murray is probably going to be pretty high up there. | :19:36. | :19:58. | |
Turning defence into attack. That the difference, he can hit a | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
Turning defence into attack. That ball with more impact on the run | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
down Anderson. This shot right there. Anderson just cannot match | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
that. Too good. He is going for it now, 140 mile -- | :20:15. | :20:59. | |
140 mph second serve. He has to do that. He does, but he has to do it | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
on the ground strokes as well, moving forward. | :21:05. | :21:30. | |
Devastating, that backhand return. He is just not used to somebody | :21:31. | :21:42. | |
being able to do that. Put him in this bad a position. One of | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
Murray's biggest challenges is dealing with adversity. He has not | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
had too much adversity in this tournament. He has had ten break | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
point today, though, and has only taken one. | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
Wouldn't put him in the top 100... Top ten. It was the right idea, | :22:05. | :22:13. | |
though. It should have been made, obviously. It was not so much that | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
short, it was what he went through to try and hold on. He was under a | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
lot of pressure in the whole game and that is what got him in the end. | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
If serving and volleying is not your natural instinct, it is probably not | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
a good idea to do it when you are a set down. You want to do it when you | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
are in front, then use the tactic so you will be a little more | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
comfortable later on. That is really deflated game for Anderson to lose. | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
He put a locked into that. He is now a set and a break down. That has got | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
to be depressing. -- he put a lock into that. -- a lot. The good news | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
just keeps coming to Kevin. He is playing better. It is one | :23:06. | :23:26. | |
thing he can try to hang his hat on. If you're going to have a long day | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
at the office, there are worse places to have it down at Centre | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
Court at Wimbledon. I this stage he is hoping it is a long day at the | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
office. Never before has he reached a Grand Slam quarterfinal, it sure | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
does not look like it will happen right now. | :23:44. | :23:54. | |
Look what he just did, he hit the ball flat, straight up the line up | :23:55. | :24:11. | |
over the biggest part of the net. He has hit its side spin, look at this, | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
across the face of the ball, hardly any spin on it at all. A bit like | :24:17. | :24:25. | |
Connors, do you agree? I do, I hear he is in the area. He would love | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
that. Just not getting his feet through | :24:28. | :24:46. | |
the courts at all. Look at his movement, almost stuck on the grass. | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
At 81 miles an hour he has two move up a lot closer to the ball, rather | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
than waiting for it. Cruises through another service | :24:59. | :25:38. | |
game. Puts the pressure back on Anderson. Starting to feel the | :25:39. | :25:48. | |
strain. His belief is dissipating. Definitely a few jackets going on. | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
He could use the rain right now, that is for sure. | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
This happened to Murray when he was up a break in the first set. They | :26:03. | :26:38. | |
kept playing. Maybe the same thing will happen, a little drizzle. Very | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
slight. You do not see that too much these | :26:44. | :27:04. | |
days. Should he be careful? Murray knew exactly what was happening. | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
Look at how far Murray was inside the baseline. When you are that big | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
you do not have a lot of choice if you are Murray, that is the right | :27:14. | :27:21. | |
shop. -- shot. You do not see much emotion from Kevin Anderson. Andy | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
Murray does not want to see him angry, does he? Six foot eight. | :27:28. | :27:41. | |
That is really rubbing it in. It is not great timing. If you have just | :27:42. | :27:51. | |
pegged a guy in the chest and you have to go back to the locker room | :27:52. | :28:00. | |
for a rain delay! Need to think ahead in this game. | :28:01. | :28:20. | |
Missed that overhead in the previous service game comedy was not going to | :28:21. | :28:31. | |
do the same then. -- in the previous service game, he was not going to do | :28:32. | :28:41. | |
the same then. Murray is asking the umpire who is going to make a | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
decision if the court is slippery and he said what kind of shoes have | :28:46. | :28:47. | |
you got on? That is good. He has shown Anderson a clean pair | :28:48. | :29:12. | |
of heels, that is for sure. When it gets a little slippery you back off | :29:13. | :29:15. | |
a little because you want to give yourself a little extra time, but it | :29:16. | :29:18. | |
is more green further back. yourself a little extra time, but it | :29:19. | :29:21. | |
is A lot of good options. Let's hope it stops raining. That is the main | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
thing. And that nobody takes a fall. | :29:27. | :29:46. | |
What an exchange! A valiant effort from Anderson. | :29:47. | :29:55. | |
It was a great effort, let see Anderson here. He says that set, I | :29:56. | :30:03. | |
give up, but wait a second. If he moved back towards the court he | :30:04. | :30:04. | |
could have gotten this. This would benefit Murray in the | :30:05. | :30:38. | |
sense the ball will skid more and stay lower. Tougher for Anderson to | :30:39. | :30:46. | |
deal with. It will be eight bigger cushion for Murray to have a double | :30:47. | :30:55. | |
break -- a bigger cushion. Anderson just can't quite find his spots on | :30:56. | :30:56. | |
the first serve. A double break, it Julia -- it is. | :30:57. | :31:22. | |
As you say, Anderson and able to find his spots. Just a couple of | :31:23. | :31:29. | |
aces today. He was averaging 21 in his first three matches. The rain | :31:30. | :31:36. | |
hits hard. This. Now finally. They have not left the court yet. -- this | :31:37. | :31:50. | |
will stop now finally. Djokovic, slight second, Murray, third, Nadal. | :31:51. | :31:57. | |
These guys have more reach than Rafa Nadal at 6ft 1. Andy is 6ft 3. When | :31:58. | :32:09. | |
you look up, he is behind the baseline. He overhit so often. They | :32:10. | :32:17. | |
must expect this to blow by because they are putting up umbrellas. The | :32:18. | :32:23. | |
problem is, on grass, even though there is a very small amount of | :32:24. | :32:30. | |
drizzle, once the court gets damp... Grab your bags. It is | :32:31. | :32:40. | |
stressful watching these guys run on, you think you will get run over. | :32:41. | :32:52. | |
Well, he might be disappointed with the weather, but he will not be | :32:53. | :32:56. | |
disappointed with his level of play and be situation he finds himself in | :32:57. | :33:00. | |
right now. They set to the good and a couple of breaks up in the second | :33:01. | :33:06. | |
set as he leaves Centre Court -- a set. It looks as though he will be | :33:07. | :33:09. | |
returning once again deeper into the second week. Never a site you like | :33:10. | :33:21. | |
to see, but the good news is that the roof will shut as pretty as | :33:22. | :33:26. | |
possible, if they don't believe it will blow over as quickly as perhaps | :33:27. | :33:37. | |
they thought. The Murray side of it have left. The Andersons are hanging | :33:38. | :33:45. | |
around. Is that supposed to be a sunflower? It is in the wrong | :33:46. | :33:50. | |
location right now! Lord knows what that is! It seemed like a good idea | :33:51. | :33:57. | |
when he was groping around in the dark. Then to work -- in the dark | :33:58. | :34:04. | |
for something to wear. Hi I thought my shirt was taking some chances! He | :34:05. | :34:13. | |
is clearly decent in self defence. He is going to get a few comments | :34:14. | :34:24. | |
wearing that today. SUE BARKER: Some variant to Billie | :34:25. | :34:34. | |
Piper -- very interesting outfits on Centre Court. We will wait and see | :34:35. | :34:37. | |
if they will close the roof. Around Wimbledon, the covers are going on | :34:38. | :34:43. | |
and players are coming off. In the bottom right of your picture, they | :34:44. | :34:50. | |
are putting the covers on, on Court One as well. The good trot against | :34:51. | :34:55. | |
Leonardo Mayer, that has ended as well. -- Grigor Dimitrov against | :34:56. | :35:02. | |
Leonardo Mayer. It is at least 20 minutes until players will go back | :35:03. | :35:06. | |
on. What is happening outside the studio? Court number 18 is playing | :35:07. | :35:19. | |
on. A lady 's doubles match. They operating it. And we are braving it | :35:20. | :35:26. | |
in the studio. We are really roughing it. | :35:27. | :35:31. | |
It is dangerous there. When it gets slippery. They are both very tall, | :35:32. | :35:41. | |
it is a long way to fall. Yes. Even when you are a great athlete, you | :35:42. | :35:49. | |
will fall. The players are not being wimps. Shale absorbs... How | :35:50. | :35:55. | |
old-fashioned is that? The red clay at Roland Garros, it absorbs some | :35:56. | :36:01. | |
monster. One false step on a grass court... Thursday of last year, | :36:02. | :36:05. | |
everyone was going over, the injuries you get on a grass court | :36:06. | :36:11. | |
can be severe. We don't want that. It becomes rather greasy. I did not | :36:12. | :36:16. | |
think this was expected to day. When I woke up, it said maybe a shower | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
around 5pm. Not this persistent showers. The good news is, it is | :36:21. | :36:27. | |
quite breezy. Hopefully, it will move away. We pretend to become | :36:28. | :36:34. | |
meteorological experts! What do you mean, pretend? There is an app. The | :36:35. | :36:45. | |
rain is coming. Andy Murray, wonderful in the first week and he | :36:46. | :36:50. | |
is continuing that. He was moving up in class today. I was talking to | :36:51. | :36:58. | |
someone who does the ATP taught statistics. He knows everything. -- | :36:59. | :37:04. | |
ATP Tour. He reminded me 35 of the last 37 Grand Slams have been won by | :37:05. | :37:11. | |
the top four. They have looked a class apart. Now that Djokovic | :37:12. | :37:14. | |
moving through the gears as and when he has needed them. He has a test | :37:15. | :37:20. | |
against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga later. Federer is returning to a place he | :37:21. | :37:26. | |
has had for years. Like King Canute. Nadal in practice yesterday, how do | :37:27. | :37:32. | |
we get across what he is like? He is just extraordinary. The Tennessee | :37:33. | :37:37. | |
plays is ridiculous. He was practising his slice backhand | :37:38. | :37:39. | |
yesterday. After the French Open when he was obviously exhausted, | :37:40. | :37:47. | |
lost and it was a nonevent. He seems to be recharging his batteries. He | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
gets better and better, like all of the champions. I would say I think | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
he is probably the favourite now. I started with Djokovic. Then I saw | :37:57. | :38:04. | |
Murray and then Federer. I have gone the same route! As the tournament | :38:05. | :38:12. | |
goes on and his physicality, how can you beat him over five sets? Do that | :38:13. | :38:20. | |
again. That is what he has got. The mental present he takes on to court. | :38:21. | :38:25. | |
Even watching guys practice against him, you don't take your eyes off | :38:26. | :38:29. | |
him. The charismatic force he takes on to court is something to behold. | :38:30. | :38:34. | |
Whether or not it becomes an indoor tournament in the second week, I | :38:35. | :38:39. | |
don't get makes too much difference to him. Is the roof moving? It is | :38:40. | :38:48. | |
moving. They will be walking back on in about ten minutes. Good. That is | :38:49. | :38:54. | |
what is happening. How will that change the match, with the roof? I | :38:55. | :38:58. | |
suppose if you are clutching at straws in terms of Kevin Anderson, | :38:59. | :39:03. | |
you would say he might want to play on an indoor court more than on an | :39:04. | :39:08. | |
outdoor court. Frankly, Andy Murray is lastly experienced on the indoor | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
and outdoor and playing on Centre Court. You look at the matchup and | :39:14. | :39:18. | |
for all our build up of these contests and of course we want to | :39:19. | :39:23. | |
see a great match. We have not seen that many great matches on Centre | :39:24. | :39:27. | |
Court this year. I cannot see how Kevin Anderson can really affect the | :39:28. | :39:32. | |
outcome of this at the moment unless Andy gets injured. He is playing so | :39:33. | :39:37. | |
well. Striking the ball superbly. Seeing the Anderson serve. He has | :39:38. | :39:42. | |
got him nullified at the moment. The news for him, take a break and take | :39:43. | :39:48. | |
a breather and give his best against Andy later. Personally, I think the | :39:49. | :39:54. | |
big match today will be now that Djokovic against Jo-Wilfried | :39:55. | :39:58. | |
Tsonga. If Jo-Wilfried Tsonga can play at his best. Andy has been in | :39:59. | :40:06. | |
awesome form. Almost every service game he has had Anderson on the run. | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
Once he steps inside the baseline, and starts dictating... Three or | :40:12. | :40:16. | |
four years ago, we were saying, it would be best if he stepped in and | :40:17. | :40:20. | |
took control of the rally and got the first week it in. It took Ivan | :40:21. | :40:25. | |
Lendl to tell him probably and his own realisation that he could not | :40:26. | :40:28. | |
afford just to tell him probably and his own realisation that he could | :40:29. | :40:33. | |
not afford justice it that and his defence is I would not only called | :40:34. | :40:36. | |
because there are others who do it as well I think there are 2000 | :40:37. | :40:42. | |
square feet on a tennis court and he knows how to cover every single one | :40:43. | :40:49. | |
of them. He has got variety. He has got a wonderful lob. Look at that! | :40:50. | :40:56. | |
That is beautiful. I did not see that. That just shows the talent he | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
has got, the ability to pull off a shot like that. It is not just about | :41:02. | :41:06. | |
rude strength. He has got real guile as well -- brute strength. It is | :41:07. | :41:13. | |
one-way traffic. Hello! That belongs in a different sport. | :41:14. | :41:17. | |
I sort Grigor Dimitrov hit a shot I did not know how to describe. | :41:18. | :41:29. | |
Another guy with immense talent. Seeing Andrew like this, we have | :41:30. | :41:33. | |
talked about this year being worried that he has not been in a final. He | :41:34. | :41:39. | |
lost easily to Rafa in the French Open. But you are not worried | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
anymore. He made the semifinal of the French. Tough match. He played | :41:45. | :41:51. | |
Philipp Kohlschreiber and others. He had the matches that gave him the | :41:52. | :41:55. | |
belief that not only could he win long matches that he could last | :41:56. | :41:59. | |
physically. Anyone who has had surgery will understand this. You | :42:00. | :42:02. | |
feel a little vulnerable and your view of the world changes a little | :42:03. | :42:06. | |
bit. You are sitting in the knickers they give you and they inject you | :42:07. | :42:12. | |
and you have to come back from that and you don't know whether it will | :42:13. | :42:16. | |
work. But I think he has got through that. It is trusting your body as | :42:17. | :42:24. | |
well. It is going to 99% is fine, but against fellow superstar | :42:25. | :42:27. | |
athletes which is what these guys have become, you need the extra 1%. | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
Even to push further and test new limits. This generation physically, | :42:33. | :42:37. | |
I have not seen for or five guys at the top. And I believe they have | :42:38. | :42:43. | |
been joined by Grigor Dimitrov in terms of ability. Let us have a chat | :42:44. | :42:46. | |
with the guys waiting on Centre Court. There they are. We are | :42:47. | :42:52. | |
talking about the wonderful five players and Grigor Dimitrov is part | :42:53. | :42:59. | |
of that now. No. Not yet. Sorry. I like to think he could win but he | :43:00. | :43:05. | |
has got work to do. A couple of your comments were very interesting. All | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
of you English seem surprised, oh, my gosh, it is raining. House of | :43:10. | :43:14. | |
rising! The other one -- how sap rising. I agree that Andrew Castle | :43:15. | :43:26. | |
mentioned Andy Murray is feeling better because he was able to go | :43:27. | :43:30. | |
through the tough five set matches at the French, but part of the | :43:31. | :43:38. | |
reason he was blown out, demolished, Byner -- by Nadal was because of the | :43:39. | :43:43. | |
effort he spent to get there. It is looking more promising for him now | :43:44. | :43:46. | |
because he has not put forth extra effort. Talking about the weather, | :43:47. | :43:51. | |
when you woke up, the forecast was maybe a slight chance, maybe no | :43:52. | :43:58. | |
rain. Yes, we are surprised. I thought it was summer here. I am | :43:59. | :44:04. | |
going nuts with the outfit. John thought he was coming to Hawaii. We | :44:05. | :44:09. | |
have seen enough flowers on the shirt and the guy on Centre Court. | :44:10. | :44:15. | |
Don't compare this wonderful shirt and that pathetic outfit. At least | :44:16. | :44:22. | |
he was keeping dry and sensible with the green jumper. I will give him | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
that. One thing we agree on is that Murray is raising his level and | :44:28. | :44:34. | |
looking in awesome form. We have all of the statistics. The way he has | :44:35. | :44:39. | |
been able to nullify Anderson's serve, Anderson has only hit two | :44:40. | :44:47. | |
aces today. In the baseline exchanges, there has only been one | :44:48. | :44:52. | |
winner. In the last game, you sensed Murray's slight anxiety, to get the | :44:53. | :45:00. | |
second break, he will feel very comfortable about proceedings going | :45:01. | :45:04. | |
forward. That is the thing. When the court that slippery, you are | :45:05. | :45:08. | |
thinking, I don't want to get injured. To be honest, I think Andy | :45:09. | :45:14. | |
moves like the best on this surface. The little steps are something that | :45:15. | :45:23. | |
the juniors are not taught these days. Andy is a great exponent of | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
that. When it gets greasy, it probably plays to his hands. With | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
the movement and also because the ball comes through at such a | :45:32. | :45:37. | |
low-level. Against a guy like Anderson, it is a nightmare for him. | :45:38. | :45:44. | |
In terms of the way that the top four have carried themselves over | :45:45. | :45:48. | |
the first week, is there any sign from anybody of improvement? John, | :45:49. | :45:54. | |
particularly, do you think the title could be coming anyone's why? You | :45:55. | :46:02. | |
could make an argument for all four of the guys. Nadal lifting his way | :46:03. | :46:07. | |
when he needed to. Taking the extra gear. Andy has looked great from the | :46:08. | :46:11. | |
start. Spectacular movement. He moves better than any of the guys at | :46:12. | :46:17. | |
this stage on the grass. You have got Novak Djokovic who was driven | :46:18. | :46:21. | |
crazy by Radek Stepanek. We were a little worried with him because of | :46:22. | :46:25. | |
the fall. Is anything going on there? The great Roger Federer, he | :46:26. | :46:31. | |
turned back the clock little bit. I went to palm springs earlier this | :46:32. | :46:34. | |
year and saw him play Novak Djokovic. I did not think was | :46:35. | :46:38. | |
possible. Now at his age, he moved better in that match, the first set | :46:39. | :46:46. | |
or two, then Novak Djokovic. He wants to prove people wrong. It is | :46:47. | :46:50. | |
hard to say. They are all so great in their own ways. It is going to be | :46:51. | :46:55. | |
hard for any of the contenders to match up with them. Federer is yet | :46:56. | :46:59. | |
to drop his serve in the Championships. We talked a bit about | :47:00. | :47:05. | |
it earlier. With the rain, he is going to have to play back-to-back | :47:06. | :47:10. | |
matches. I disagree with that schedule. It hurts Roger to have to | :47:11. | :47:16. | |
play have affected the four matches in six days -- to play | :47:17. | :47:20. | |
hypothetically. Because he has one as I'm times, they have got to make | :47:21. | :47:23. | |
it tougher on him? I don't know what they decided. They just have to keep | :47:24. | :47:31. | |
the whole half of the draw but... It is difficult. In a scenario like | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
today, you put Roger on Centre Court and then he is able to finish as | :47:36. | :47:38. | |
much and the other guys are playing on the outside courts and then he | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
will be two rounds in front. I don't know at what stage John would say | :47:44. | :47:48. | |
that it is unfair. They want to keep the section is the same. It is | :47:49. | :47:53. | |
difficult. Right now when it seems amazing to me we have had this | :47:54. | :47:56. | |
tournament for 130 years and we have done well without a roof at 120 | :47:57. | :48:01. | |
years. Now we have got one and need two. Times change. We are waiting | :48:02. | :48:08. | |
for the players to come back on. We will have a little bit of fun now. | :48:09. | :48:14. | |
Tim, you will enjoy this. We have been talking about the Copa-Uppy | :48:15. | :48:20. | |
challenge. His big moment. We had Rafa Nadal in the studio and then he | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
went in the office and this is Tim Henman's go at keepy-uppy. Andy | :48:25. | :48:37. | |
Murray got to 78. John McEnroe was the umpire for this. Look at that! | :48:38. | :48:40. | |
92! CHEERING | :48:41. | :48:47. | |
Very proudly, the BBC commentary team led by Tim Henman tops the | :48:48. | :48:53. | |
leaderboard with 92. Andy Murray and 78. He is going to maybe want to | :48:54. | :48:59. | |
have another go. Anyway, let's see some more people. Here are the | :49:00. | :49:01. | |
latest challenges. Look at that score! Is that | :49:02. | :50:04. | |
cumulative? Just that one guy, Brandon Thompson. He is on the | :50:05. | :50:09. | |
leaderboard. It is fair to say, we may as well hand him the profile | :50:10. | :50:15. | |
now. First of all, I challenge it. Second of all, we left at seven and | :50:16. | :50:23. | |
came back at over 2000. Severe editing. Are you going to have a go? | :50:24. | :50:31. | |
I am going to practice and watch the US -Belgian tomorrow. I will try to | :50:32. | :50:38. | |
give it a shot. I will hope to beat Mark Petchey at nine. Mark, we will | :50:39. | :50:43. | |
have to see yours again. It is the most enjoyable of all. Bowl, no. It | :50:44. | :50:53. | |
is all about quality -- Oh, no. We will show it later. The good news is | :50:54. | :51:00. | |
that players are out on Centre Court. Play is about to get under | :51:01. | :51:06. | |
way under the roof. Andy Murray up against Kevin Anderson. The | :51:07. | :51:14. | |
Copa-Uppy thing is quite amazing. It was lovely Andy wanted to have a go. | :51:15. | :51:20. | |
That is part of his warm up routine. It just goes to show how relaxed | :51:21. | :51:24. | |
here is that he will contribute to something like that. There are | :51:25. | :51:28. | |
cameras and people. Everybody wants a little piece of these players the | :51:29. | :51:34. | |
whole time. The fact he gave gave a little piece shows us all how | :51:35. | :51:41. | |
comfortable he is. Amelie Mauresmo should have a go. She is a big | :51:42. | :51:49. | |
football fan. I know he will not let it lie that Tim Henman is ahead. You | :51:50. | :51:58. | |
saw Tim Henman right after he did it and I saw him five minutes later and | :51:59. | :52:03. | |
he was still soaked. He was prepared to ruin a perfectly lovely expensive | :52:04. | :52:09. | |
suit in order to win. That is how competitive he is underneath the | :52:10. | :52:13. | |
smooth exterior. He sent a text to Andy as soon as he had done it. We | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
talk about Murray and his competitiveness and everything but | :52:19. | :52:23. | |
he seems to be revelling in this role here at Wimbledon and enjoying | :52:24. | :52:26. | |
the fact he is here as reigning champion. And are the nerves and | :52:27. | :52:34. | |
pressure and even the headlines. It was a gorilla on his back -- gone | :52:35. | :52:39. | |
are the nerves. He has achieved things that no British player has | :52:40. | :52:42. | |
emerged for tens of years. Every time he stepped on the court, he was | :52:43. | :52:48. | |
breaking records. It was not until he won Wimbledon that he probably | :52:49. | :52:52. | |
felt, I have done something here, I don't think even realised how | :52:53. | :52:56. | |
difficult it would be to win the last game against Novak Djokovic | :52:57. | :52:59. | |
last year. Why wouldn't you come back here and enjoy your role as | :53:00. | :53:04. | |
defending champion? Here is that the height of his career, probably. He | :53:05. | :53:08. | |
might have another year or two of improvement. Who knows. Why wouldn't | :53:09. | :53:12. | |
you come back and enjoy even on a day like today your role? This is | :53:13. | :53:19. | |
his stage. We really ought to make the most of him because I don't know | :53:20. | :53:23. | |
what is coming next but we would be very lucky if we have | :53:24. | :53:26. | |
what is coming next but we would be these for another generation or two. | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
They are quite rare. It is not having a go at anybody. Quite a | :53:31. | :53:33. | |
magnificent tennis player. I am having a go at anybody. Quite a | :53:34. | :53:37. | |
sure the fans are enjoying it too much. Trying to make the most of it. | :53:38. | :53:41. | |
They will be watching on the big screen. Others hoping to get play | :53:42. | :53:46. | |
outside. Grigor Dimitrov is on Court One at the moment. He has taken the | :53:47. | :53:51. | |
first set. Leonardo Mayer will have to come out at 30-15 to serve to | :53:52. | :53:56. | |
stay in the second set. On Court Three, Agnieszka Radwanska looks as | :53:57. | :54:00. | |
if she will be going out of the tournament. Makarova is looking | :54:01. | :54:14. | |
good. We are looking forward to seeing Andy on court against Kevin. | :54:15. | :54:20. | |
So are these people. They are in the resale queue. As people leave, the | :54:21. | :54:27. | |
tickets resold. They are hoping to get onto Centre Court. They have got | :54:28. | :54:31. | |
Murray and still to come Novak against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Good | :54:32. | :54:35. | |
luck to them, I hope they are awarded. It was lovely watching the | :54:36. | :54:38. | |
Andy Murray documentary the other day about someone who stood in the | :54:39. | :54:42. | |
stands and real fans getting into the Centre Court to see history. | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
Someone gave me a hug on the outside courts the other day. I was | :54:48. | :54:52. | |
wandering around. This had been their dream to come to Wimbledon for | :54:53. | :54:57. | |
years. They had been successful in the ballot after being unsuccessful | :54:58. | :55:01. | |
at their club and she was in the grounds and rain or not she was | :55:02. | :55:04. | |
still having a great time. There is only about this event. It is huge as | :55:05. | :55:09. | |
a sporting event, as a cultural event, and it seems to get bigger | :55:10. | :55:14. | |
each year. When there is a court -- when there is a roof on Court One, | :55:15. | :55:20. | |
we will have two courts operating. Absolutely. Roll on the blue sky. No | :55:21. | :55:27. | |
problem for us on BBC Two. We are heading straight to Centre Court. | :55:28. | :55:35. | |
Let us rejoin the boys in the box. They are going to rejoin battle very | :55:36. | :55:39. | |
soon as they get towards the end of the warm up serves. Scottish fans in | :55:40. | :55:47. | |
place. Murray in pole position in this particular encounter. Perfect | :55:48. | :55:51. | |
time to get off the court with the double break. They are going -- I am | :55:52. | :56:02. | |
going to have to ask both of you, about the roof army across, is this | :56:03. | :56:11. | |
going to favour Andy? -- the roof coming across. I do not think it | :56:12. | :56:16. | |
will. Presumably Anderson could go bigger. It is a little warmer when | :56:17. | :56:21. | |
it is closed. That means, to me, it should go through the air a little | :56:22. | :56:28. | |
quicker. Is that right? You talk about the humidity, if it goes up, | :56:29. | :56:33. | |
does that make the air heavier? Does it make a slower? For me, any break | :56:34. | :56:39. | |
in proceedings is going to be a good thing for Anderson. Down a set and a | :56:40. | :56:43. | |
double break, he needed to maybe get back to the locker room and chat to | :56:44. | :56:48. | |
his coach, think of a few new ideas, anything to slow the Murray | :56:49. | :56:55. | |
train. In essence, he is two sets down. How much effort is he going to | :56:56. | :57:04. | |
put in to get back into this set? Your opinion would be? I taught | :57:05. | :57:14. | |
earlier to someone who... You have got to keep making your opponent | :57:15. | :57:18. | |
work as hard as possible. In this situation, he has won a five set | :57:19. | :57:27. | |
match here, he has worked extremely hard on his fitness, I would hope | :57:28. | :57:33. | |
that right off the bat, I generally agree totally that you want to see | :57:34. | :57:42. | |
players go at 100%, but if he is 4-0 down, identity should exert himself | :57:43. | :57:48. | |
more than he needs to hold onto his serve and get confidence because he | :57:49. | :57:54. | |
will still have to come from 2-love down. He has done that twice. I | :57:55. | :58:01. | |
can't envisage a scenario where he could come from two breaks down. | :58:02. | :58:06. | |
This first game, give it a real go, try to get one of them back. Then | :58:07. | :58:17. | |
maybe take it to five three or 5-4. Both of those matches wearing recent | :58:18. | :58:21. | |
memory from Anderson's point of view. The optimistic scenarios are | :58:22. | :58:29. | |
few and far between right now. I think Anderson should have a real | :58:30. | :58:33. | |
good go at this service game. Murray has had a half an hour break and | :58:34. | :58:39. | |
might struggle to find his rhythm. An early break could get him back in | :58:40. | :58:41. | |
this second set. The only time Andy has lost from 2-0 | :58:42. | :59:30. | |
up was when I was working with him so we can discount that one. David | :59:31. | :59:37. | |
Nalbandian? Yeah. Here on this court. | :59:38. | :59:47. | |
It was not the coach's fault, it was the physical trainer's fault, wasn't | :59:48. | :59:56. | |
it? That is what I thought. That is what I told him! | :59:57. | :00:48. | |
That time of the court seems to have done him some good, he is hitting a | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
clean ball right now, Murray seems a little stiff. The wrong shot from | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
Murray. Clearly. Not put a whole lot in his serve | :00:58. | :01:37. | |
yet, that one only 103, and he is about to pay the price for this week | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
game. Anderson, a couple of break points, has yet to break. First | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
chance. He steps it up, 127. A massive | :01:49. | :02:05. | |
change of direction, as well. Peppered that forehand. | :02:06. | :02:36. | |
Well, there is one of the breaks. He was obviously listening to you, to | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
believe he could get back into it with the break. If you were | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
listening, you would have heard... Go for this game. Still work to do. | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
One of the two breaks back. He was looking to serve and volley | :02:58. | :03:15. | |
straight away, Anderson, off that first serve. | :03:16. | :03:25. | |
Let's not forget, he has broken three times already. Not a foregone | :03:26. | :03:44. | |
conclusion he is going to hold. Andy only broken three times in the | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
tournament. I think, incredibly, he is down at | :03:48. | :04:17. | |
about 50% of first points one, Anderson. Remarkable to think he is | :04:18. | :04:27. | |
one of the biggest servers on tour. -- points won. | :04:28. | :05:00. | |
That was good coverage at the net this time from Anderson. That is | :05:01. | :05:16. | |
where that reach comes in handy, that six foot eight wingspan. Not | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
even at full stretch he is able to put that volley away fairly easily. | :05:25. | :05:37. | |
It is brilliant, absolutely exhilarating watching these players | :05:38. | :05:38. | |
on the run. exhilarating watching these players | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
Murray. Clearly exhilarating watching these players | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
coach, will be saying you have to employ more serve and volley, this | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
is a beautiful half-volley. This gives Murray the chance to break | :05:58. | :05:58. | |
right back. Looked like Andy have moved forward | :05:59. | :06:35. | |
a couple of times and taken the ball in the air. He should have won this | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
point. As good as his vision is coming it | :06:38. | :07:10. | |
cannot be perfect every time, Murray. Perhaps dropping that one | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
short because of the serve and volley the previous time from | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
Anderson. Sometimes the benefits are not always obvious straight away. | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
Just flat out great returning. Look where he puts the ball. He does a | :07:26. | :07:39. | |
reasonable job to scoop that up. APPLAUSE | :07:40. | :08:29. | |
A sense of relief flooding through Anderson. | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
A crucial game for him to hang onto his serve to get the added benefit | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
from the one break of serve he managed to achieve at the restart. | :08:43. | :08:55. | |
sudden, this set. Murray was probably wondering the first thing a | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
lot of us while. What was Anderson capable of as he came back out onto | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
the court? He has proven to be very professional about coming out and | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
trying to take it right to him. That first service break to get into the | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
set, at least. Now nerves could play a factor. You are absolutely dead on | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
when you said that serving and volleying does not necessarily play | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
dividends at a particular point, but just knowing he is willing to move | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
forward makes Murray hesitate that little bit. His net play, tea has | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
been to the net far more than Murray, 25 times. Starting to have a | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
positive impact, finally. I said this guy would go the extra mile. A | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
couple of years ago he got his coach to drive around for a special | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
vinegar that would help his digestive system. Vinegar, the stuff | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
you put on your fish and chips. I thought that would give you | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
heartburn. I do not know where Mark finds these nuggets of information. | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
He is a different guy right now. I personally think you should get out | :10:21. | :10:30. | |
a bit more often! Hitting the ball with a lot more authority, Anderson. | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
Murray has to take control of this set again with his serve. Don't get | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
tentative, he has two start to step up like he did in the first set and | :10:44. | :10:44. | |
a half. That is a little bit more on it, but | :10:45. | :10:57. | |
safe, 108, enough to get the job done. Certainly if you are serving | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
at 108 you need good placement with a guy that is six foot eight and | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
that wingspan. If it is not in the corner, it can come back with | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
interest. That is the one that has been getting him time and time | :11:16. | :11:16. | |
again. Even if he does get it back, it is | :11:17. | :11:30. | |
extremely difficult to Anderson. I don't know why does not force Murray | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
to go up to the middle. A couple of steps to his right. | :11:35. | :11:48. | |
He is definitely capable of hitting a block forehand return, that was a | :11:49. | :11:59. | |
perfectly played one. More variety than I have seen from him for a | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
while, impressive. They're finally was one time too | :12:02. | :12:22. | |
many. Amazingly this could level the set. Totally different atmosphere. | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
Murray up a set and two breaks, the crowd comfortable and enjoying what | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
they are seeing. Suddenly ten minutes into the resumption it has | :12:35. | :12:35. | |
got a little bit nervous out here. Put a lot into that second serve. | :12:36. | :13:10. | |
Playing with fire a bit, there. 96 mph top Murray on the second serve, | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
11 or 12 miles an hour faster than average. You can bookmark that | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
second serve if he goes on to a straight sets win, that was massive. | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
That is the fastest serve he has hit today, 128. | :13:31. | :14:00. | |
A really awkward moment for Murray. But he comes through it. | :14:01. | :14:17. | |
It's the ball so hard, swings so hard, the ball is beaten up rather | :14:18. | :14:26. | |
badly. The last game before new balls come into play. Anderson had a | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
little chance, as much as he could have hoped for. To miraculously get | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
back into this set. Not out of it yet. | :14:42. | :14:57. | |
More of a thumping sound to that serve. | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
Plays with a very old school racket, Anderson comedy does not need any | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
more power. He has tried a couple of powerful ones but he says it gets | :15:12. | :15:12. | |
away from him. Didn't well on the disappointment at | :15:13. | :15:52. | |
all, Anderson, at not breaking Murray to get back on level terms. | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
This is a fantastic game. Making full use of the new balls. | :15:59. | :16:06. | |
Neville Godwin would have had a few words, the way Kevin has come out | :16:07. | :16:26. | |
and play. There has certainly been a change of tactics. I ask why does it | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
take our and 20 minutes and a rain delay for the player to work that | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
out? Surely they have to be able to think on their feet. Down in the | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
first set, things not going as they thought, change it up. I will tell | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
you why, nerves. You walk out into this situation, when you have never | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
been in before. It is virtually impossible for a guy like this, | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
Kevin Anderson. You do not hear a lot about him, but he is well | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
respected in the locker room. A late Bloomer. Currently playing | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
absolutely the best tennis of his life, to try and keep this close. | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
You said the third time in a row he has been in the final 16 other | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
major, quite an achievement for him. This is a fantastic time for him, | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
but to walk out to the greatest court in the world come he just | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
wasn't able to do things and Murray would not let him. Now you see what | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
he is capable of. He spent a lot of his formative | :17:31. | :17:48. | |
years, at college with the tournament director in Australia, a | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
wonderful winning record in Ella boy. He went out on the tour | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
virtually on his own and just have the back-up at the University. He | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
did try and figure a few things out. the back-up at the University. He | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
did try and figure -- Illinois. Out of all the stories coming he has one | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
of the most incredible. As I said at the start of the match. He grew up | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
playing swing ball on a rope. On the wall his father built. His father | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
coached him out of the book I am not familiar with, it is called total | :18:25. | :18:25. | |
tennis training. It is so old his dad was taping it | :18:26. | :18:39. | |
together as he would prepare the next lesson. He certainly has not | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
had... Couldn't he get another book? I think there is only one. | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
This thing is an antique, it should be in a museum. I think the chapter | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
on serve and volley, maybe he lost that before the seller tapes it | :18:59. | :18:59. | |
together. -- taped it together. Just out of curiosity, | :19:00. | :19:16. | |
when that book was written? I do not know, but it was obviously out when | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
he was practising. If he is 28 it could be 20 years ago. | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
Revolutionary! Quick, I am going to get on Amazon and order a copy for | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
you, John. I do not think it comes in an electronic book, I am afraid | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
you cannot download it. A quick ball from Murray. What he expected when | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
he came back on court. He has weathered the storm. Got himself in | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
a great position to lead by two set. | :19:55. | :20:15. | |
Sounds bigger now than it did before, the serve. | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
Amazing fee only four aces that the day. 67 for the tournament. | :20:24. | :20:33. | |
Lets not forget, Murray is one of the greatest return as you will ever | :20:34. | :22:11. | |
see, and he is starting to make Anderson work more regain, then his | :22:12. | :22:12. | |
points. -- earn his points. A similar way he lost the serve in | :22:13. | :23:17. | |
the opening set in the first, this time he loses the second set. Murray | :23:18. | :23:26. | |
in control. SUE BARKER: Murray two sets up on Centre Court. We will be | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
back there in a moment. As for the weather outside, I am afraid it has | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
not got any better. It is still raining very heavily indeed. | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
Everyone trying to keep dry. Still watching the tennis unfold on the | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
Hill. I think people are beginning to run out of patience, hoping play | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
will get underway on outside courts. We have so many matches to | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
be completed. Many fourth-round matches. It looks as though we are | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
going to have plenty of play on Tuesday and Wednesday as they try | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
and catch up on the Mac is not completed. We will be back on Centre | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
Court in a moment. Some matches have finished today. Feliciano Lopez has | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
thick Mac over John Isner. Lopez has a big serve himself. Finalist of | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
Queen's, winner of Eastbourne and still going strong, key is through | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
to the fourth round. It means he will be back on court tomorrow. | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
Marin Cilic is also through com he defeated Jeremy Chardy of France. | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
Now there is only one Frenchman left, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. He is up | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
against Djokovic last on Centre Court. Three sets, he is through and | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
will face Djokovic or songs are. Stan Wawrinka is through having beat | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
Denis Istomin. He has been very outspoken in his press conference | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
about the organisers and the fact he faces playing three matches in three | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
days. Wawrinka through to face Lopez. Back we go. | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
MARK PETCHEY: It is Anderson who has his back against the wall as we | :25:09. | :25:19. | |
start the third set, trailing by two set to love. | :25:20. | :25:34. | |
Andersen unpleasantly surprised. He seemed to be in a position to hit | :25:35. | :25:49. | |
it, sort of moseyed over and it dropped on the outside of the line. | :25:50. | :25:58. | |
You have to think about how deflating it is that he lost that | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
after putting so much of an effort. He has got to keep that intensity | :26:05. | :26:05. | |
sky-high here. It is hard not to get down if you | :26:06. | :26:22. | |
are Kevin Anderson. Murray has gone wide so often to the forehand. That | :26:23. | :26:24. | |
can open up the one down the middle. A another ball clips off the line. | :26:25. | :26:41. | |
Another win of service game. I am assuming the same here, you | :26:42. | :27:03. | |
cannot teach an old dog new tricks. The game where Anderson was serving | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
and he chose to stay back, resorted back to what he did and let Murray | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
into the point, the ball floated. Then he probably thought, I should | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
have done it the last point. But then Murray is thinking, that is | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
probably what he is going to do. It is where the game gets really | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
complex. Anderson is thinking, now what do I | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
do? Pray Murray's level drops. Spent a little time before Madrid, | :27:32. | :27:56. | |
the clay-court tournament, with Ivan Lendl practising, Kevin Anderson. A | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
few people making comments on whether he was going to pick his | :28:02. | :28:03. | |
brain before this match. Richard Branson loves to play | :28:04. | :28:15. | |
tennis, he is very competitive. Interesting rules, Richard Branson | :28:16. | :28:39. | |
has to win. CHUCKLES Just kidding! Is that why you didn't | :28:40. | :28:49. | |
go back? Touch?. You will be happy to know that they | :28:50. | :29:05. | |
want me back this year. Let me guess who you are playing with. Who am I | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
playing with? Richard Branson. Murray just playing the percentage | :29:12. | :29:37. | |
com he did not want to give Anderson one shot to finish the point. Happy | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
to restart the point. Anderson offering up another on. . -- error. | :29:44. | :30:15. | |
should be very careful to use that against Anderson. It is in his | :30:16. | :30:25. | |
strike zone, perfect for him to rip it across court, which he did. | :30:26. | :31:29. | |
Anderson must be fairly if not totally thoroughly disgusted that he | :31:30. | :31:40. | |
is getting burned on that serve time after time. Made some adjustments in | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
the rest of his game. Probably needs to look at where he is standing to | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
return the Murray serve. Simple put away, and at the moment | :31:49. | :32:19. | |
he is putting away Anderson pretty simply. Anderson is very flat on the | :32:20. | :32:25. | |
return. On the second serve he moves inside the baseline, but when you | :32:26. | :32:29. | |
watch him on the first serve he literally does the splits step up | :32:30. | :32:37. | |
and straight down. You would want to encourage him to cut off the angles | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
so that forward momentum would help you do that. It is something we | :32:42. | :32:48. | |
looked at earlier in the match, how Murray gets his movement going | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
forward, takes the splits step, then he is able to go in either | :32:53. | :32:58. | |
direction. You can imagine how tough Anderson would be if he was | :32:59. | :33:01. | |
direction. You can imagine how tough Anderson would be if able to explode | :33:02. | :33:04. | |
off that return, just attack it. You don't get the sense of him or Isner | :33:05. | :33:11. | |
putting their full weight into it. Either they are not able to... I | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
have just got to think they are not able to because any coach who has | :33:16. | :33:22. | |
coached these guys must have said that. Maybe all of them have | :33:23. | :33:28. | |
maximised their potential but they are not in the same league, | :33:29. | :33:37. | |
athletically, as the top dogs. They need to be like some of those NBA | :33:38. | :33:43. | |
players. Those guys are athletes, that's for sure. | :33:44. | :34:03. | |
Six foot six is still the tallest man ever to have won Grand Slam in | :34:04. | :34:17. | |
the form of Del Potro, and it is a shame he's not here. | :34:18. | :34:25. | |
Wrist surgery again. Career threatening. Hope to see him back | :34:26. | :34:36. | |
soon. Not going to help the ranking, not | :34:37. | :34:49. | |
making the top ten ranking because he is unable to defend the points he | :34:50. | :34:55. | |
got in the semis last year. That's what I always admired when I | :34:56. | :35:22. | |
watched Stefan Edberg play, he would hit the return, I should have known | :35:23. | :35:29. | |
better, but you would look up and he would be on top of the net. It | :35:30. | :35:35. | |
seemed like a split-2nd. One of the best I have ever seen moving | :35:36. | :35:37. | |
forward. He has struggled to make | :35:38. | :36:14. | |
adjustments. One of the guys who he has struggled against over the years | :36:15. | :36:21. | |
is Tomas Berdych. He hasn't found a way past him. In five Grand Slams, | :36:22. | :36:27. | |
five or six Masters events, I mean just think what his ranking would be | :36:28. | :36:32. | |
if he hadn't met Tomas Berdych. That's what makes these top four | :36:33. | :36:40. | |
players so great, the layers in their game that they have to beat | :36:41. | :36:42. | |
you. He rectified the error on the first | :36:43. | :37:12. | |
volley. Murray saw this coming. He gave away what he was going to do, | :37:13. | :37:18. | |
that drop volley, but maybe he felt bad because he had hit them before. | :37:19. | :37:23. | |
Straight in the chest, bad because he had hit them before. | :37:24. | :37:25. | |
Straight in but I think after the last time he felt bad. | :37:26. | :37:36. | |
Now he is obviously upset he didn't do it, because he ended up losing | :37:37. | :37:43. | |
the point. That is one answer, challenging. I think it is almost | :37:44. | :37:57. | |
the first challenge of the match as well, isn't it? It is. One hour 44 | :37:58. | :38:04. | |
minutes, two and a half sets, the line judge has done a pretty good | :38:05. | :38:06. | |
job! That is the shot of the tournament | :38:07. | :38:50. | |
so far. APPLAUSE Amazingly it is the second | :38:51. | :38:55. | |
time he has hit this type of shot in the match. | :38:56. | :38:58. | |
It looks like point over. It was hoping to come back to him and get | :38:59. | :39:00. | |
one last look. Old school again. He has always have those types of | :39:01. | :39:31. | |
shots up his sleeve, it is one of the reasons why he rose up the | :39:32. | :39:36. | |
rankings so quickly. There is a touch of genius to his tennis. He | :39:37. | :39:42. | |
has always had incredible feel for the ball. He can do virtually | :39:43. | :39:52. | |
anything. You mentioned earlier that you had punched him and he needed to | :39:53. | :40:01. | |
get stronger when he lost to Nalbandian. -- coached him. His | :40:02. | :40:12. | |
second serve can be vulnerable at times, and he could make life easier | :40:13. | :40:25. | |
for himself. To me, a tremendous volleyer. You cannot ask for more | :40:26. | :40:33. | |
from those spectators, so resilient in the face of bad weather. Always | :40:34. | :40:36. | |
optimistic out on the hill. Outrageous skill. What vivid | :40:37. | :42:05. | |
imagination to even be creative enough to come up with that shot. | :42:06. | :42:19. | |
Look That is what Usain Bolt looks like | :42:20. | :43:21. | |
with a racket in his hand. He's not allowed to anticipate though. Murray | :43:22. | :43:27. | |
is fast but his anticipation is to none. Maybe that's where it comes in | :43:28. | :43:32. | |
handy that he has practised with Anderson in the past. | :43:33. | :44:14. | |
Just long. UMPIRE: The ball was called out. The lines man overruled. | :44:15. | :44:33. | |
It looked like it went long. I was chatting to Peter Fleming a little | :44:34. | :44:38. | |
while ago and we were talking about your practice sessions with Jimmy | :44:39. | :44:44. | |
Connors in 1982. He obviously attended a practice with Pete, but | :44:45. | :44:50. | |
there was a time when you practised with Jimmy a lot. Big mistake. You | :44:51. | :44:57. | |
lost to him at Queen's and Wimbledon, but did you learn | :44:58. | :45:02. | |
something from him in that period? I learned I needed to practice | :45:03. | :45:07. | |
harder, and not let him read my game any more. Hard lesson learned. | :45:08. | :45:57. | |
Another guy who doesn't show you much in terms of emotion. A rare | :45:58. | :46:06. | |
fist pump from Anderson. He doesn't have the racket head | :46:07. | :47:47. | |
speed of some of the top players so when he tries to step in, he seems | :47:48. | :47:54. | |
to often times captured a little too late. It is a tough shot to pull | :47:55. | :47:56. | |
off, no mistake about that. Tenth ace. You were talking about | :47:57. | :48:27. | |
anticipation, rightly so, with Murray, it is amazing. You were | :48:28. | :48:31. | |
intimating that Usain Bolt doesn't have to deal with that with what he | :48:32. | :48:38. | |
does for a living. I happened to be there at the Olympics when he ran, | :48:39. | :48:42. | |
and that anticipation before the start, with the world's fastest guys | :48:43. | :48:51. | |
is incredible. You almost feel like you could hear a pin drop in a | :48:52. | :48:57. | |
stadium of 80,000 seats. I guess in some ways he has to try to | :48:58. | :49:03. | |
anticipate the gun. But they know if their reaction time is within too | :49:04. | :49:08. | |
short a frame, it is anticipation and it is not allowed. I was | :49:09. | :49:18. | |
watching the Championships in Birmingham yesterday and one of the | :49:19. | :49:22. | |
contenders of the girls anticipated a little too early, disqualified. | :49:23. | :49:29. | |
That is tough. 100 metres. I forget who it was, but that is a harsh way | :49:30. | :49:36. | |
to lose. I was thinking back to those practice session with you and | :49:37. | :49:40. | |
Jimmy Connors and I feel you would have needed hawk-eyed between the | :49:41. | :49:47. | |
two of you. We called our own lines and we are still alive today! | :49:48. | :50:58. | |
Big ball by Murray there. His forehand has been solid the entire | :50:59. | :51:07. | |
match, looking to finish off Anderson. Anderson looking imposing | :51:08. | :51:22. | |
out there. Murray right now thinking to himself he should have taken his | :51:23. | :51:27. | |
crosscourt forehand trademark short, trying to keep Anderson on it at the | :51:28. | :51:33. | |
net, didn't pay off. Might do later though. | :51:34. | :51:57. | |
That is an excellent return, fighting off that body serve. | :51:58. | :52:06. | |
Anderson looking to handcuff Murray, may be literally an inch closer to | :52:07. | :52:10. | |
his body he would have got the result he wanted, but instead he | :52:11. | :52:12. | |
watched it go by him. It is good anticipation by Murray | :52:13. | :52:36. | |
but there is no way Anderson should lose this point. The way he turned | :52:37. | :52:44. | |
to hit that forehand, he couldn't really go back crosscourt so Murray | :52:45. | :52:49. | |
ceased upon that opportunity. -- seized upon. | :52:50. | :53:51. | |
Hit with velocity but a hint of desperation as well from Anderson. | :53:52. | :54:00. | |
He grew up playing against the wall, he was playing against one than as | :54:01. | :54:11. | |
well. Murray refusing to book call. -- buckle. | :54:12. | :54:38. | |
Very unusual to see Murray miss a second serve, certainly in a point | :54:39. | :54:45. | |
as critical as that. Always making life difficult for | :54:46. | :55:08. | |
himself, Anderson, allowing Murray to chip that forehand again and get | :55:09. | :55:13. | |
back into the point. Forcing himself to go for too much. How many times | :55:14. | :55:22. | |
can he stave off Rake points? -- break points? | :55:23. | :56:06. | |
You have got to hand it to Murray there because that was a big-time | :56:07. | :56:15. | |
serve, the hardest of the match and he got it back into the corner | :56:16. | :56:17. | |
again. Terrific effort from Anderson, that | :56:18. | :56:58. | |
was a very awkward forehand. Down two sets to love, at 6-8 he had to | :56:59. | :57:09. | |
really bend a long way. Four from 18, that is a lot of chances. | :57:10. | :57:44. | |
Seems like it is much easier for Murray to return serve in the deuce | :57:45. | :57:58. | |
box. 19th break point. It is unusual. He should have a | :57:59. | :58:23. | |
better angle on the deuce court. Anderson stepping up big time, | :58:24. | :58:30. | |
incredible. He has got a long way to go. To win this game! | :58:31. | :58:47. | |
Quite often Murray's biggest challenge is dealing with adversity | :58:48. | :58:54. | |
and it won't sit well with him, the number of break point opportunities | :58:55. | :58:55. | |
that he has had. That is when, if you are player, you | :58:56. | :59:22. | |
don't think far ahead. You think of the moment right now and Anderson | :59:23. | :59:24. | |
did a great job to get that home. Quality point from Anderson. But | :59:25. | :59:58. | |
Murray up to the challenge, he needed to be vigilant there earlier | :59:59. | :59:59. | |
on. hit on the run today. Full of | :00:00. | :00:51. | |
confidence, Anderson now. Doesn't have a whole lot to show for | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
it yet, but he is hanging tight. slightly and Murray scoops across | :00:54. | :01:31. | |
court, he doesn't seem to be in position to handle it. | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
He has to anticipate that shot a little sooner. | :01:35. | :01:50. | |
Just as Anderson raised his level as Murray here. | :01:51. | :03:17. | |
there, cameia with nothing. He managed to keep a pulse on this | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
third set when it looked as though Murray will get away from it. There | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
is going to be a handful of occasions where Anderson gets into a | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
match of this calibre, to beat someone as good as Murray. If you | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
look back on a tape of this match, those are the type of returns there. | :03:37. | :03:37. | |
You can't miss that there, those are the type of returns there. | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
want to beat Andy Murray. Or any of the other top players. A | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
wild miss takes the pressure off and just puts it squarely back on his | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
shoulders. He might get help. He has put in for | :03:52. | :04:05. | |
US citizenship, Kevin Anderson. An opportunity, perhaps for him on | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
receiving it to Playday advice cup for America next year. Play Davis | :04:11. | :04:22. | |
Cup. Married his college sweetheart in 2011. | :04:23. | :04:31. | |
He didn't seem prepared at all to hit that ball when it dropped on the | :04:32. | :05:40. | |
line. Very indecisive there, not sure | :05:41. | :06:09. | |
whether to let it bounce and played a stiff price. He looked as if he | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
should have played a backhand volley, rather than try and get | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
inside it and shove a forehand volley. | :06:19. | :06:35. | |
Just barely missed. That would have been threading the | :06:36. | :06:49. | |
needle if that had gone in. Anderson's approach shot was | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
effective but a it was so short. Murray didn't miss by much. | :06:53. | :07:13. | |
This time Anderson gets it down to the net. | :07:14. | :07:21. | |
You better be ready, if you are up there and Murray is scrambling | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
round, credit Anderson there. That would have been match point, | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
had he lost the point, or missed that volley. | :07:32. | :07:41. | |
UMPIRE: Game Anderson. Tantalisingly close. Hasn't been so for him this | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
time. The cumulative effect of forcing | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
your opponent to work hard, get the dividends later on. | :07:55. | :09:05. | |
Murray sees himself slide, slip, so another open court. You worry about | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
the knee. Awkward there. If he is OK. He has already strapped | :09:14. | :09:46. | |
it. Seems to be limping a little at the | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
moment. May force him to go for broke even | :09:51. | :10:04. | |
more. Very secure in the knowledge he is | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
at least going to get a tie-break to finish off this match. He might well | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
do it before then. He struggles at times or the | :10:11. | :10:23. | |
toughest thing for him is dealing with adversity but he has done it in | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
this third set, when he hasn't made the breakthrough. It is very | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
important you stay in the present. You have to make sure you put those | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
previous opportunities out of your mind, and concentrate on the next | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
point. Look at Ily. He is in the Royal Box. | :10:43. | :10:59. | |
He called the Village People or something? He is more traditionally | :11:00. | :11:22. | |
dressed. Let us see if Anderson can hang in | :11:23. | :11:51. | |
there. Cheap point from | :11:52. | :11:52. | |
there. Cheap point Anderson in this game. | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
It could be expensive, right at the start. | :11:56. | :12:47. | |
His serve has been under siege. That is a really well played point. | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
Don't see Anderson go to the one hand and slice, but it helped them | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
there. You don't see him winning many of these points when it gets to | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
18 shots. You can see why she at a career high | :13:04. | :13:38. | |
of 18 in the world. He has stepped #u7 and played far better since the | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
roof has been closed. -- up. You feel as if he is prepared | :13:41. | :13:49. | |
to go for bigger shots to try and keep the rallies a bit shorter. | :13:50. | :14:11. | |
Up to the net, 49 times, good job by Anderson, to take it to Murray. | :14:12. | :14:44. | |
Murray with a career record of 132, only 82 lost. | :14:45. | :14:53. | |
Anderson won as 86. Lost 77 which would indicate the return is most | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
important thing in tie-breakers. What is the most important thing? I | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
think getting cheap. S on your serve? I would go with just | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
believing in yourself and handling the nerves better. It is a great way | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
to end the set. If you are sitting in the box here. | :15:15. | :15:22. | |
Make an announcement presumably out about the outside courts. Not good | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
timing by the All England Club on that one? What are you locking at me | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
for? You're on the committee. UMPIRE: The ball was called out. It | :15:31. | :16:19. | |
is right in front of us. I didn't see it. | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
I don't know. It was definitely should be challenged. Ooh. Good | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
call. You pretty much have to hit the | :16:28. | :17:19. | |
line, I would think. That is what Murray does. | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
Coupled with the fact and Anderson will be delighted that he doesn't | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
know, that that first serve was in. It looks like he has a second wind | :17:28. | :18:21. | |
right now. That was one of the few rallies | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
where you never felt Murray was getting the upper hand. Anderson was | :18:27. | :18:49. | |
looking to dictate play. What a pick up! | :18:50. | :18:59. | |
Anderson doesn't look like it has affected him. He is thinking how has | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
he done that. "That is the best return I have hit in the match." | :19:05. | :19:34. | |
Credit to Anderson, every time you feel as if the heart monitor machine | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
is going to show you a flat line, he manages to resuscitate his challenge | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
in this third set. A body serve that ended up as a body | :19:44. | :20:41. | |
blow for Anderson. That was the 114mph second serve. | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
Murray, how did he make this happen? Very close, looked like outside of | :20:49. | :20:49. | |
the line. The second serve got the treatment | :20:50. | :22:00. | |
it deserved. -- deferred. They didn't want to | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
double fault. He didn't want to have it sit up like that. It just got | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
blasted. There is some high quality stuff in | :22:09. | :23:00. | |
this tyke break. A small group of people would like | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
to see a fourth set. Waited a long time for this one. | :23:03. | :23:29. | |
Two-and-a-half hours. Can't say Anderson wasn't warned | :23:30. | :24:00. | |
where that was going. Bun able to find the type of return he would | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
have liked. Credit to Murray for finding the first serve. | :24:05. | :24:17. | |
He has to desoid whether to go bigger or take it wide where he has | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
had a lot of success. It's a bit risky if Anderson hits it | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
cleanly. Definitely a good change of spin. | :24:27. | :25:00. | |
Murray went to the slice. Anderson didn't deal with it well, | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
and now, Murray has a match point. The seventh successive year he is | :25:03. | :25:44. | |
through to the quarter-finals at Wimbledon. | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
He passes husband first real test in terms of a set with flying colours. | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
Saves the set point, just the greater versatility from Murray at | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
the end, proved the difference. Kevin Anderson gave it everything | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
but delight in the Murray camp. And a little sense of relief that that | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
didn't go to four for Andy himself. Great tennis. Anderson stepped up | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
and did everything he could. It wasn't good enough. Murray showing | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
his class in the end. Good working with you boys. | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
I'm off. We are back do you guy, you are so good finishing off I am off | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
to the other corner. Thanks John. Certainly a match of | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
two Hlavackovas, for a set and 3-0 double break there was only one | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
player in it, and after the rain delay Kevin Anderson's coach had a | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
word and said you have to be more aggressive. In the second half he | :26:54. | :26:55. | |
played a lot better. Kevin's first time out on Centre | :26:56. | :27:05. | |
Court. It is something he is going to remember for an awful long time. | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
It has been a long hard journey for the Safin, he is resilient, he is | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
durable. -- for the south afterry can, but ultimately he is | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
vanquished. Sir Alex Ferguson watching on. One great Scot in the | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
box, another one signing autographs at the side of the court. It's a big | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
step Murray takes as he moves through to the quarter-finals. | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
Blemish free in terms of sets lost so far at this year's Championships. | :27:36. | :27:48. | |
Akes as he moves through to the quarter-finals. Blemish free in | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
terms of sets lost so far at this year's Championships. | :27:52. | :27:53. | |
This is the reaction from the box. Up out of their chair, in unison. | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
They have watched enough tennis to show you the reaction they know | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
their man was tested down there in the third set by Kevin Anderson. | :28:04. | :28:14. | |
There is he is always very diligent with the amount of autographs he | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
attempts to sign as he leaves the court. | :28:21. | :28:30. | |
Aware from that time he waited for great players to sign his programme | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
when he came to the Al England championships. -- all England | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
Championships. It was end of the seat stuff at the end. It was | :28:38. | :28:45. | |
business as usual for Andy Murray. In the end, though, it was another | :28:46. | :28:53. | |
straight sets victory for him here. 6-4, 6-3, and 7-6 Kevin Andersony is | :28:54. | :29:01. | |
with Rishi. -- and Andy Murray. Another straight | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
sets win for you, how would you describe how you played today? When | :29:06. | :29:12. | |
it was outdoors I played well I was in a good position, when we came | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
back in doors he started to strike the ball better started serving | :29:18. | :29:20. | |
better and I was dropping the ball shorter than I was the first | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
set-and-a-half, so I had to do a bit more running at the end. It was a | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
good win, because he, he was playing very well at the end, making it very | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
tough for me. A lot of experts were impressed by your anticipation, was | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
that helped by the fact you private rented sector titsed with Kevin? Not | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
really. Some days you get lucky with, some days you don't. You guess | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
a lot of the time and sometimes you go the wrong way and thankfully | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
today I picked a few good ones. You are playing as well as you are, does | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
it matter who you face in the quarter-finals? Everyone who is in | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
the quarter-finals, they are playing top tennis. You know, and I I have | :30:02. | :30:07. | |
to do and concentrate on my side of the court. If I play well I will | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
make it tough for them. Last year, there seemed to be a build up belief | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
that took you'll the way to the final, are you feeling that again | :30:16. | :30:17. | |
this year from final, are you feeling that again | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
public? Yes, well, I mean I am just trying to, trying to stay | :30:23. | :30:25. | |
concentrated on the court. I don't worry about everything else that is | :30:26. | :30:28. | |
going on outside of it and everything that is said. I just try | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
to play tennis, and not worry about the rest, but when you are playing | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
in front of a crowd like that it it gives you a big lift and makes it | :30:38. | :30:49. | |
hard for your opponents. With all the rain around, how relieved are | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
you to get your matches out of the way? Now I can rest up and get ready | :30:55. | :31:01. | |
for the quarters. Your mum was definitely here watching you today. | :31:02. | :31:05. | |
Yes, Jamie wasn't playing so she didn't have a choice to make! Well | :31:06. | :31:12. | |
done. Thanks. I think that theme will continue throughout the | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
Championships, but well done to Andy Murray, another straight sets | :31:17. | :31:23. | |
victory. He is through an delighted to be through with all of the rain | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
we have had around on Saturday and today, he has cruised through, and | :31:29. | :31:41. | |
doesn't have to be back on the match court until Wednesday. Meanwhile | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
outside Wimbledon, I'm pleased to say the rain has moved away and all | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
of the people are being rewarded with matches on the outside courts, | :31:51. | :31:54. | |
including Court Number One where Grigor Dimitrov is on against | :31:55. | :32:07. | |
Leonardo Mayer. That much is getting under way and you can watch it live | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
on the red button. Also out on Court number three, Makarova is just one | :32:13. | :32:30. | |
game away from putting out Radwanska. Here on BBC Two and the | :32:31. | :32:39. | |
Centre Court, next it is the 2011 champion, Novak Djokovic, against Jo | :32:40. | :32:42. | |
Wilfried Tsonga. Of course Wimbledon is the biggest, | :32:43. | :32:58. | |
most valuable event we have in sport. COMMENTATOR: There is the new | :32:59. | :33:09. | |
Wimbledon champion! I am in good form, I am playing well and I want | :33:10. | :33:18. | |
to give my best on the court. COMMENTATOR: As far as first rounds | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
go, that is about as good as it gets. That is it, a mini classic | :33:24. | :33:28. | |
ends 14-12. Novak Djokovic touch taken all the | :33:29. | :33:46. | |
way and cannot quite believe he has escaped. Ace number 15 seals the | :33:47. | :34:05. | |
victory for Jo Wilfried Tsonga. It doesn't matter really how many | :34:06. | :34:08. | |
matches I have played on that court, it feels different, it feels | :34:09. | :34:14. | |
very special. We are certainly going to love watching this match. The | :34:15. | :34:19. | |
great entertainer himself, Jo Wilfried Tsonga, and the top seed | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
here, Novak Djokovic. Here they come. And they are keeping the roof | :34:24. | :34:44. | |
on so this match will be completed tonight. Djokovic is very much aware | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
of the threat this man poses. What an evening of tennis we have in | :34:50. | :34:55. | |
store. And in the company of Jimmy Connors, welcome back to Wimbledon | :34:56. | :35:00. | |
once again. What do you think of this? Very interesting. I am old | :35:01. | :35:09. | |
school so I think there is more to winning this Championships than just | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
playing the tennis. This seems to take a little bit out of it, but I | :35:14. | :35:21. | |
also understand the schedule moving along is great. My first time seeing | :35:22. | :35:26. | |
a match with the roof closed in person so I am very excited about | :35:27. | :35:32. | |
that. We were very excited when you won Wimbledon. How much do you | :35:33. | :35:38. | |
remember of 1974? Take a look at this, let's enjoy this. Here we go. | :35:39. | :35:47. | |
Look at this! I cannot do that any more, that is for sure. A much | :35:48. | :35:53. | |
younger than me. To look back and see that that was 40 years ago, it | :35:54. | :36:00. | |
is nice to see but it is time to get to the present now. Playing Ken, | :36:01. | :36:08. | |
there were no easy matches against Muscles. It was great to play | :36:09. | :36:15. | |
against him, his legacy and what he brought to tennis. I have been in | :36:16. | :36:22. | |
that position where I was 39, playing and still trying to compete, | :36:23. | :36:26. | |
and now I understand what he went through at that time. 1974, what | :36:27. | :36:34. | |
does that mean to you? I think I was -2-macro months at that | :36:35. | :36:35. | |
does that mean to you? I think I stage! -- I was -2 months. Those | :36:36. | :36:59. | |
were fun days for me. I loved playing on the Centre Court here in | :37:00. | :37:05. | |
front of this crowd, but now we are into a different era. The players | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
are different and also the tennis is different. What did you make of Andy | :37:10. | :37:15. | |
in the last match? He is going about his business very nicely, getting | :37:16. | :37:22. | |
into the quarterfinals he also said everybody is playing well now. He | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
will have to lift his game, no doubt. He will have to play against | :37:27. | :37:33. | |
much tougher competition I think. He had a great two weeks last year, he | :37:34. | :37:39. | |
knows what it is like to win now and he has raised his game. He is going | :37:40. | :37:44. | |
about his business very quietly. He has played well, good enough to win, | :37:45. | :37:51. | |
but now he has to lift his game to play Wimbledon championship tennis. | :37:52. | :37:54. | |
Some great shots and great passes when it mattered, weren't there? | :37:55. | :38:00. | |
Yes, this was the early part of the match and he did such a good job of | :38:01. | :38:07. | |
returning Anderson's serve. In the first two sets he was only able to | :38:08. | :38:15. | |
manage two phases. If anything, the rain delay, when Andy was up a set | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
and a double break, it worked against Andy because Anderson had a | :38:21. | :38:27. | |
chat with his coach. That was an incredible passing shot. He | :38:28. | :38:30. | |
obviously worked out he needed to be more aggressive, sometimes serve and | :38:31. | :38:36. | |
volley, try to keep the rally is shorter. From what Andy was saying, | :38:37. | :38:40. | |
he doesn't like playing under the roof, he much prefers whipped with | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
the elements more exposed. Interesting that he says that. I | :38:46. | :38:50. | |
played him when the roof was closed and the conditions were different, | :38:51. | :38:55. | |
and you explained to me that really they are not but just the feeling of | :38:56. | :39:00. | |
being outside and what this Centre Court is about when the roof is open | :39:01. | :39:06. | |
is something special. But I am old school and that is the way I feel. | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
Certainly Andy Murray would like to keep the roof open but it hasn't | :39:12. | :39:14. | |
been able to be keep the roof open but it hasn't | :39:15. | :39:17. | |
line-up as it stands at the moment. It is interesting about the | :39:18. | :39:32. | |
scheduling because we have heard that rain delays are nothing new but | :39:33. | :39:37. | |
we see what matches are complete at the end of the day then formulate an | :39:38. | :39:43. | |
order of play tomorrow. That keeps it fair for everyone. The one person | :39:44. | :39:50. | |
who has been outspoken about that is done this last Wawrinka because he | :39:51. | :39:55. | |
will now play three matches in three days. On Saturday they should have | :39:56. | :40:04. | |
put him on an outside court, but they put other doubles matches on | :40:05. | :40:11. | |
them. You can feel for him. Yes, a couple of matches in a row will be a | :40:12. | :40:17. | |
tough task for him. He is also a professional tennis player, he needs | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
to be in the kind of condition and shape to withstand that. That is | :40:23. | :40:26. | |
where the roof on one hand is great for the tennis and the fans, on the | :40:27. | :40:33. | |
other hand someone will get behind somewhere along the line. You will | :40:34. | :40:36. | |
have to build more rooms or try to work something out but we will see | :40:37. | :40:41. | |
how it goes. He is young and strong enough to get through and play three | :40:42. | :40:48. | |
matches in a row. Who would be a tournament referee? What about this | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
match here because this will be a fascinating match, Tsonga and | :40:54. | :41:02. | |
Djokovic. Interesting to see how Djokovic's shoulder is. He | :41:03. | :41:05. | |
definitely jarred it in the last match and we were concerned after it | :41:06. | :41:12. | |
happened. I commentated on Tsonga's first match and he was really | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
ordinary. He looked flat, he wasn't timing the ball well from the | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
baseline. His second round match was very tough and he came through both | :41:22. | :41:27. | |
matches in five sets. That is sometimes a good sign, if you can | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
win when you are not playing your best, but hopefully he can step it | :41:32. | :41:38. | |
up. I don't feel like he has got anything to lose against Djokovic. | :41:39. | :41:45. | |
He has got to go out there and see what happens. In the last three | :41:46. | :41:53. | |
meetings he has not won one set. But he knows what it is like to bring | :41:54. | :42:00. | |
his game. He is also very flashy, and these guys are going to be all | :42:01. | :42:07. | |
over the court. Both of them. The excitement and what they can bring | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
to a match like this is pretty special. When you have the ability | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
of Tsonga sometimes it is the big occasion that brings out the best in | :42:17. | :42:24. | |
you. This is not big enough! The opportunity to beat Djokovic, to get | :42:25. | :42:30. | |
to the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, it is something special and if he is | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
not ready for this now, too late! We are looking forward to this, a real | :42:37. | :42:42. | |
treat. We had better get out of the way. Jimmy, you are on your way to | :42:43. | :42:47. | |
the commentary box with John Lloyd and Andrew Castle. | :42:48. | :42:52. | |
Andrew Castle: Send him in, wonderful to have him on the team. | :42:53. | :42:59. | |
We are seeing Novak Djokovic, the number two seed ire whisker. On the | :43:00. | :43:10. | |
left-hand side of the picture we have a semifinalist here in 2001, | :43:11. | :43:17. | |
they are in the Tsonga camp. Tsonga is a real talent but a talent that | :43:18. | :43:23. | |
sometimes likes to go its own way. Disciplined in terms of shotmaking, | :43:24. | :43:29. | |
not always, but a threat to every opponent, he is and this is his sort | :43:30. | :43:34. | |
of arena, a place where he has beaten Roger Federer from two sets | :43:35. | :43:40. | |
down. This could be the match of the day. | :43:41. | :44:52. | |
You want to hit it to my forehand? That is the treatment you are going | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
to get. Tidy game. And it is a massive | :44:57. | :45:22. | |
welcome to Jimmy Connors, hello! It is so nice to be back with the two | :45:23. | :45:35. | |
of you again. Do you still use the T2000? I would like to spring | :45:36. | :45:41. | |
forward but I cannot get away from all of that! Boris Becker, a man who | :45:42. | :45:47. | |
knows this arena as well as you, Jimmy, working with Novak Djokovic. | :45:48. | :45:52. | |
That was an interesting appointment. I think it has been | :45:53. | :45:57. | |
good for Djokovic. Boris Becker was a great champion in his own right | :45:58. | :46:02. | |
and I think that is underestimated, what he can bring to the table in | :46:03. | :46:06. | |
that respect. John Lloyd, we were out on court for | :46:07. | :47:19. | |
his second match and he didn't play anything like this. He did well to | :47:20. | :47:25. | |
get through that match. There were aces all the way through that | :47:26. | :47:27. | |
match, very little with them. -- very little rhythm. That is a | :47:28. | :47:47. | |
good game for Tsonga, settling down, getting into the rhythm of the | :47:48. | :47:56. | |
match. I cannot wait to talk to you about the Djokovic return. It is | :47:57. | :48:01. | |
either you or him or Andre Agassi the best return as everybody talks | :48:02. | :48:06. | |
about. Thank you for putting me into that category. No matter who is | :48:07. | :48:09. | |
serving, he doesn't back up. that category. No matter who is | :48:10. | :48:14. | |
not afraid to take a chance and be aggressive from the very first shot. | :48:15. | :48:22. | |
Speaking of which, here comes Joe Willie. This is his stage, this is | :48:23. | :48:26. | |
the worry for Djokovic. I see after the first week the brown | :48:27. | :48:47. | |
worn patches around the baseline. Not much around the service line. It | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
is a bit slippery around the baseline if you are defending. | :48:53. | :49:09. | |
This is what happens when it hits these lines, it just stops so the | :49:10. | :49:24. | |
effect is that the returner plays too early. | :49:25. | :49:55. | |
SUE BARKER: Early stages of this match on the Centre Court under the | :49:56. | :50:01. | |
roof, but meanwhile outside and on Court Number One Grigor Dimitrov has | :50:02. | :50:09. | |
won the second set on the tie-break so now he is leading 2-1 against | :50:10. | :50:22. | |
Mayer Argentina. And it only took one game for Makarova to put out | :50:23. | :50:34. | |
Radwanska, seeded four. She is now out. Along rallied to finish on and | :50:35. | :50:45. | |
that is how she went out. Makarova And, through in straight sets. | :50:46. | :50:54. | |
Stanislas Wawrinka was on court today but he won in straight sets | :50:55. | :50:58. | |
and is through but he will have to be back tomorrow for his | :50:59. | :51:02. | |
fourth-round match against Lopez. He was very upset with the scheduling | :51:03. | :51:07. | |
and the fact he could not finish his match on Saturday and this is what | :51:08. | :51:11. | |
he had to say afterwards... We are not going to hear from him but just | :51:12. | :51:16. | |
to say that he was not happy in his press conference afterwards. He | :51:17. | :51:20. | |
doesn't think the schedulers have been fair to him and he faces three | :51:21. | :51:26. | |
matches in a row. Back we go. Andrew Castle: Ace to begin the game | :51:27. | :51:31. | |
from Tsonga. That was a good deep return there, | :51:32. | :52:07. | |
took advantage of the short second serve. That is one of his best | :52:08. | :52:12. | |
returns, that off backhand, he loves that shot. | :52:13. | :52:36. | |
That is a little victory there for the French man. | :52:37. | :53:24. | |
The shout was good indeed but he saw Djokovic a little late, came in | :53:25. | :53:32. | |
behind it and was able to take the ball out of the air. | :53:33. | :54:25. | |
Now we must have a look at that, Novak Djokovic has called for a | :54:26. | :54:46. | |
challenge. The ball was called out. It was travelling quickly and it was | :54:47. | :54:51. | |
right on the line. We will have another go at this point. I love | :54:52. | :54:54. | |
Hawkeye, absolutely spot on. You can see the importance of this | :54:55. | :55:16. | |
technology. 0-30, lose the serve... Hawkeye gives a chance to correct | :55:17. | :55:19. | |
it. And no arguments. here. Some big forehands in that | :55:20. | :55:24. | |
rally. Early stages here, they are playing | :55:25. | :56:44. | |
for a place in the quarterfinal. We have had a lot of talk about female | :56:45. | :56:50. | |
coaches of male tennis players and it is kind of a nonevent. Amelie | :56:51. | :56:58. | |
Mauresmo coaching Andy Murray, she won Wimbledon. You were a | :56:59. | :57:01. | |
groundbreaker in that regard, your mother was your coach, right? It is | :57:02. | :57:07. | |
interesting when that first came out and I saw that, I kind of said, | :57:08. | :57:13. | |
well, whatever Andy is looking for and what he expects to find out of | :57:14. | :57:19. | |
everybody out there, he went to Amelie Mauresmo. Obviously she has | :57:20. | :57:26. | |
something, or he feels she has something, that he is lacking. That | :57:27. | :57:31. | |
combination sometimes can be very good. And the fact she is female is | :57:32. | :57:36. | |
neither here nor there. I don't think that should make a difference | :57:37. | :57:41. | |
at all. It is what you are looking for and who can give that to you, | :57:42. | :57:46. | |
and deliver it in a way that you can catch onto in a hurry. If she is | :57:47. | :57:52. | |
that person, so be it. Boris Becker working with Novak Djokovic, Stefan | :57:53. | :57:57. | |
Edberg with Roger Federer. Even though that didn't work, the | :57:58. | :58:26. | |
serve and volley, it still does something in the mind of Djokovic. | :58:27. | :58:33. | |
He is saying, I am going to mix it up. Not a good approach shot there | :58:34. | :58:45. | |
though. Too far back to come in on that one. Djokovic had way too much | :58:46. | :58:49. | |
time to hit that passing shot. What a game the Serbian is putting | :58:50. | :59:26. | |
together here. Top seed, world number two, champion here and he is | :59:27. | :59:30. | |
seeing the serve now, feeling it. I think Tsonga is co-going to have | :59:31. | :00:18. | |
to play more like that, he can't just stay back and be satisfied to | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
trade shots with Djokovic, so he will have to look for a shorter ball | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
and take advantage of it. But where do you serve? | :00:29. | :00:45. | |
Ooh, mark that one down, a second serve return missed. Up usual. | :00:46. | :01:25. | |
It's away. That? That is breakthrough, you are | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
seeing the reason why Djokovic has won the last ten matches he has | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
played against this opponent. He is relentless. So we are under the roof | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
here in Centre Court. Elsewhere, oh, it is fantastic. That is quick work | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
to get up and through the clouds earlier. That must be Heathrow | :01:50. | :02:08. | |
airport. Djokovic seems to have effortless | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
power. The Serb places it well, gets the speed on it but he doesn't look | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
like he is putting a whole lot of effort in it. | :02:18. | :02:30. | |
He took his time, nice on that forehand. Sometimes you get in, you | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
get to feel like you need to rush a bit too quickly. He took his time | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
nice, waiting for the opening. What would you think that Tsonga's | :02:40. | :03:39. | |
game would be to come out in this match? I think he has to go off him. | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
He has to be very aggressive. There is no other way. | :03:45. | :04:27. | |
7.34, on a day that has been difficult for spectators u and the | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
players alike, not really knowing, apart from those on Centre Court if | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
they would get on court for sure. There you go. Heathrow. That is what | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
is going on outside. We thought it was still raining. We have no idea. | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
But that is Terminal 5. Heading west. You can tell the wind | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
direction, they normally take off into the wind. That would be a | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
nerve-wracking thing to be up in a balloon with large multiengine jets | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
going round you, you better be sure of the wind direction. Is that | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
Windsor Castle on the left hand side. I think it might be. Gorgeous. | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
I can't see where the... Whether the Queen is in or not, whether she is | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
flying the flag. Coming back across Wimbledon Common | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
and back in to this Fourth Round match. 20 minutes play. Djokovic | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
already in control, 5-2. Flawless from Djokovic. He is seeing the ball | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
so big, it is timing it beautifully. Sir Richard. He likes a bit of a | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
balloon. Andrew, you said he has won ten times in a row, so to come out, | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
you feel comfortable against your opponent and you feel you can do no | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
wrong, so that the way it is playing at the moment. | :05:53. | :06:44. | |
Interestingly one of his former coaches, one of Tsonga's former | :06:45. | :07:02. | |
coaches in the box. Keeping former players in the game very important. | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
Out of the six new balls were brought in last game, only four have | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
been used. There so there will be a couple of Newbies in there. Djokovic | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
serves for the first set. Beautiful second serve. Down the | :07:15. | :08:02. | |
middle. Serving for the set. No nervings. | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
That had a little something extra on it. | :08:05. | :09:36. | |
Boris Becker is pleased with his man's work. And you can understand | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
it. Novak Djokovic went into the French Open in 2012, with a chance | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
chance to hold all four Grand Slams simultaneously. That hadn't been | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
done for 43 year, he finished two years in the role row as the world | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
number one, all of this in response to Federer and Nadal who seemed to | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
be setting new standards. They were joined by Andy Murray, and we have | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
Jimmy Connors, a floors you time in tennis, do you agree? Yes, if you | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
look at it, 38 of the past 40 Grand Slams have been won by four player, | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
Murray, Djokovic, Nadal, and Federer, except for... Del Potro and | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
Stan the man. At the veil Yanukovychian open, so when you say | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
the big four, it really has been over the past ten years or so, but | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
to have Murray now, enter that, legitimately. Absolutely. Jo was, so | :10:35. | :10:48. | |
a number of players have had a go at it. Djokovic, sorry Tsonga when he | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
got to the finals and demolished Rafael Nadal, the quarter-finals, | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
got to the final, I think everybody thought it was only a matter of time | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
before he won a Grand Slam title. He may do, but he just, his shot | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
selection on big points is just not as good as the top four. He just | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
plays the wrong shot too many time, he has the game, the weapons but | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
mentally, not as good as the big four. | :11:18. | :11:53. | |
Tsonga didn't hit that high forehand volley as solid as he would have | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
liked to. Gave Djokovic a chance and he took advantage of it. | :12:00. | :12:46. | |
He has slipped this year, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, in the | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
rankingsings, he is down -- ranks, he is down to 17th in the world. He | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
will look that the number and he won't like it. It is the lowest he | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
has been in three years, and he has earned the right but getting to the | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
Fourth Roundtor, have a shot at Djokovic, but at the moment, | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
difficult to see what he can do, apart from hold serve, and still | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
round. So far, Djokovic impregnable. He has to be patient. Don't panic | :13:16. | :13:34. | |
yet. There is a lot of tennis left. Ill round. So far, Djokovic | :13:35. | :13:35. | |
impregnable. He has to be patient. That is his best shot. Backhand | :13:36. | :14:47. | |
down-the-line. Happy or the world to know it. | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
-- for the world to know it. The rest of his game isn't bad | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
either. We will go at the end of this set. | :14:55. | :15:17. | |
Future Wimbledon champion maybe. The difference between the two | :15:18. | :15:42. | |
returners is on the second serve. If you watch Djokovic he will be | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
hitting the ball forward. And Jo, his body was moving backwards when | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
he hit it. He doesn't get the pace as Djokovic on the return. | :15:53. | :16:09. | |
Tsonga stayed low on that forehand, went over the high part of the net. | :16:10. | :16:47. | |
Timed it per#23ebg9ly. -- perfectly. | :16:48. | :17:50. | |
NSMIT Djokovic, sorry Tsonga perhaps, could be in trouble with | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
that sloppy shot at 30 love. It was a casual drop shot. Now, back to 30 | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
Al. It puts extra pressure on himself, | :18:01. | :18:20. | |
doing that. He has had enough pressure against Novak. | :18:21. | :18:21. | |
Exactly. That is a good game for Tsonga. | :18:22. | :18:33. | |
Tremendous return from Djokovic. But the Frenchman gets through. | :18:34. | :18:45. | |
SUE BARKER: So we will be back on centre a moment, bun results from | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
elsewhere, and from, well, from Centre Court a short time ago with | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
Andy Murray under the roof on centre, dismissing the tall south | :18:56. | :19:04. | |
African, so he is through in three sets once again, and the defence of | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
his title the is looking very good indeed. | :19:10. | :19:19. | |
So Murray is through and we know will face Grigor Dimitrov, who on | :19:20. | :19:29. | |
Court No. Umber One, the 11th seed dismissed Leonardo Mayer. | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
So, the quarter-final has been decided. It is Dimitrov against | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
Murray. That is one to look forward to, on Wednesday. | :19:37. | :19:45. | |
What a summer he is having on the grass courts and no doubt will be | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
back on centre for that quarter-final. That is where we are | :19:52. | :19:52. | |
heading right now. The Royal Box is making a | :19:53. | :20:07. | |
contribution led by Britain's sixth richest man, Richard Branson, he | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
likes an arena, but he knows it is time to stop. Gus O'Donnell behind, | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
cabinet secretary, Lord O'Donnell now. Cabinet secretary under three | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
Prime Minister, everyone getting involved. Good. 7. 50. We have a | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
match on hurt hands here. That is the first Irishman to | :20:24. | :20:51. | |
captain a Ryder Cup team. Defending it at Gleneagles in September. | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
Glad you enjoyed that. We had a great time Jimmy. He sunk the | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
winning putt at the Belfry. Swept up in the skirt of the line | :21:07. | :21:15. | |
judge here. At the moment Djokovic outacing | :21:16. | :21:38. | |
Tsonga, you probably wouldn't have picked that beforehand. | :21:39. | :21:57. | |
His body was going forward. He almost committed too early but | :21:58. | :22:07. | |
Tsonga could never take for granted that Djokovic is out of the point. | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
Be prepared for everything. UMPIRE: Mr Tsonga is challenging the | :22:11. | :22:28. | |
call. There was so much dust and everything mixed in, this is the | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
third match on Centre Court, if this was out, no, no well in. Plenty of | :22:34. | :22:43. | |
chalk round. Inside the baseline too. | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
No sign of Djokovic's fiancee this week, so far. | :22:49. | :23:18. | |
Not in the player's box any way. Expecting in October. | :23:19. | :23:30. | |
He had one service game where the direction of sever was not in the | :23:31. | :24:11. | |
conners and Djokovic made him pay. That is the pressure put on the | :24:12. | :24:13. | |
Tsonga serve. If he doesn't get the direction | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
right, he will pay, even if he hits it hard. | :24:23. | :25:10. | |
SUE BARKER: We are staying on Centre Court until the conclusion of this | :25:11. | :25:21. | |
match. But here, late in the evening, many courts have been stood | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
down now, and many of the players have been sent home, they haven't | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
been able to complete all the matches that were scheduled on the | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
outside courts today, we means we will start earlier tomorrow, not | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
12.30. So if you have a ticket for tomorrow play gets underway earlier | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
than expected. It is now at 11.30 as they try to catch up some of the | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
Fourth Round matches and quarter-finals as well. That is the | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
news from round, some play going on, but we are staying on centre until | :25:52. | :26:03. | |
the end of this one. I must congratulate Katie Boulter. She beat | :26:04. | :26:20. | |
Priscilla Hon. There you go. I'm listening. We will talk again. It is | :26:21. | :26:29. | |
going to be a long week! So 2-3. Top seed, serving. | :26:30. | :28:10. | |
Just crumbs from the table, isn't it for Tsonga at the moment. He has to | :28:11. | :28:24. | |
stay patient and take care of business on his own serve, be | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
patient on the Djokovic serve because Djokovic at the moment is | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
being immaculate on his serve. The first serve percentage has been | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
great and he has been backing it up so well. | :28:37. | :28:45. | |
It might come down to the tie-breaker. He has to be patient | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
and have the faith he will get one opportunity on the Djokovic serve, | :28:52. | :28:54. | |
and he has to take it. Sounds easy, of course it is not. | :28:55. | :29:06. | |
This returning is magnificent. I think he has dragged this just wide. | :29:07. | :29:08. | |
We will check it with Hawk-Eye. Crowd understanding the importance | :29:09. | :29:18. | |
of that. smooth. It will wear a bit of | :29:19. | :30:09. | |
pressure on Tsonga, he has to watch out for that. | :30:10. | :30:32. | |
It gets right back to Tsonga before he barely has a chance to breed and | :30:33. | :30:38. | |
then the ball is on to him. He is playing well, just to stay with | :30:39. | :30:40. | |
Djokovic in the set at the moment. Middle again, all white -- or wide? | :30:41. | :31:27. | |
I would try to mix it up a little bit. | :31:28. | :31:59. | |
body serving? Exactly. You have to hit the ball 130 mph every time, mix | :32:00. | :32:05. | |
it up a little bit. It could be a big moment in this match. | :32:06. | :32:36. | |
New balls, please. A loose shot but when you are serving to Djokovic, | :32:37. | :32:46. | |
how are you supposed to... You say Jan him. Tsonga likes to go out | :32:47. | :32:52. | |
wide, Djokovic has been reading that. He just sees the ball so | :32:53. | :33:01. | |
quickly, we can see an illustration and Hawk-eye. This is Djokovic. Down | :33:02. | :33:09. | |
to baseline level, the yellow ones at the back, two metres behind to | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
receive one of the biggest serves in the game, look where he hits the | :33:15. | :33:17. | |
second one. The ball arrives back very quickly at you. But he does not | :33:18. | :33:23. | |
miss any. That is the thing. I like what he does, but he has to make him | :33:24. | :33:30. | |
earn it. To miss the forehand like that, that is a pressure, but you | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
have to overcome that pressure if you are going to stay with him. | :33:35. | :33:37. | |
Sometimes when you stay with a player like Djokovic, there are | :33:38. | :33:43. | |
peaks and valleys in every match, if you can weather the storm and | :33:44. | :33:46. | |
something good may happen. But you are not going to do it by missing | :33:47. | :33:55. | |
the first ball, you cannot do that. A set and a break, Novak Djokovic | :33:56. | :34:01. | |
serving with new tennis balls, which he will probably be delighted about. | :34:02. | :34:35. | |
Really putting a message out to the rest of the players in the draw, | :34:36. | :34:43. | |
Djokovic. This is as good as it gets. | :34:44. | :34:51. | |
This might be one of those matches, that he is so prepared and ready for | :34:52. | :35:00. | |
everything, looking so effortless, moving well, striking the ball well. | :35:01. | :35:28. | |
He has beaten Tsonga ten times in a row, even at the recent French Open, | :35:29. | :36:23. | |
beating off the court in three straight sets. It is turning into a | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
long evening for Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. First things first, just got to | :36:29. | :36:30. | |
hold. He has hit double the winners that | :36:31. | :36:43. | |
Tsonga has so far. That is going up against someone like Tsonga, who has | :36:44. | :36:48. | |
powerful weapons, particularly on the forehand. Djokovic 2-to-1 with | :36:49. | :36:51. | |
the winners so far. The simplicity of his game is the | :36:52. | :37:29. | |
spectacular thing. Technically efficient. | :37:30. | :37:36. | |
His movement, the way his feet to move, get him in position to be able | :37:37. | :37:42. | |
to strike the ball. It is fun to watch. | :37:43. | :38:01. | |
Well, this is wonderful. The French have already won a football this | :38:02. | :38:10. | |
evening. If they were to lose this one, too bad! This is simply | :38:11. | :38:13. | |
magnificent. You have to play one of the points | :38:14. | :39:26. | |
of your life to win it. Well said. Set point, three saved. | :39:27. | :39:46. | |
That is about one of the only bad errors he has made. He should have | :39:47. | :39:53. | |
moved closer in on this one, you could have made two quickstep it | :39:54. | :39:57. | |
would have been an easy volley rather than lunging at it. | :39:58. | :40:02. | |
Appreciated by the Centre Court. OK, can Tsonga make any sort of | :40:03. | :40:22. | |
headway against the Djokovic serve? If they had the graphics we had I | :40:23. | :40:26. | |
wonder if it would help. This is where Djokovic has gone on the first | :40:27. | :40:32. | |
served to the left court. Wide 29%. Not much into the body. A lock to | :40:33. | :40:38. | |
the Tsonga forehand. Do you think it would help, Jimmy? Any information | :40:39. | :40:44. | |
is good information. You have to understand that. You have to look at | :40:45. | :40:49. | |
who you are playing against. A guy who is so aware of everything going | :40:50. | :40:55. | |
on, Djokovic. As soon as Tsonga starts hedging to one side, he is | :40:56. | :40:58. | |
going to pick up on that very quickly. Wide on the right court as | :40:59. | :41:06. | |
well over half the time. It is interesting, on both service boxes | :41:07. | :41:10. | |
he is going to the Tsonga strength. Which then opens up the weakness, | :41:11. | :41:16. | |
the backhand. It is fascinating. The way you should play Nadal. Jim | :41:17. | :41:22. | |
Courier, people going in the forehand side to get his backhand, | :41:23. | :41:29. | |
and others, as well. OK. A moment of truth, serving for a two set lead, | :41:30. | :41:31. | |
Novak Djokovic. His racket is back and so | :41:32. | :42:12. | |
well-prepared com he could have hit that any place he wanted to com he | :42:13. | :42:14. | |
had that kind of time. UMPIRE: Game and second set to | :42:15. | :43:06. | |
Djokovic. So match the disappointment of those break points | :43:07. | :43:09. | |
in the previous game. Wraps it up in quick time. SUE BARKER: We will be | :43:10. | :43:15. | |
back on Centre Court at the start of the third set, but on the outside | :43:16. | :43:23. | |
court, the nets are going up. Some Junior double matches being played. | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
As far as the men's and ladies games, the matches that have not | :43:28. | :43:31. | |
been completed today, they have been sent home. An earlier start time | :43:32. | :43:36. | |
than expected tomorrow, 11:30am play will get underway. Coverage will | :43:37. | :43:44. | |
begin and 11:30am on BBC Two. Because of the rain, ladies | :43:45. | :43:47. | |
quarterfinals day. Although there will be a couple of ladies | :43:48. | :43:50. | |
quarterfinals, there will be men's matches as well. Federer and Nadal | :43:51. | :43:55. | |
will be on the show courts as they try to catch up. A lot to look | :43:56. | :43:58. | |
forward to tomorrow. Another busy day. Join us from 11:30am. As far as | :43:59. | :44:05. | |
the main draw is concerned, just one match still being played. This | :44:06. | :44:10. | |
fourth-round match on Centre Court. We will be staying with it right | :44:11. | :44:13. | |
through to its conclusion. ANDREW CASTLE: ?? the last time Jo-Wilfried | :44:14. | :44:21. | |
Tsonga came back from this score it was against Roger Federer in 2011. | :44:22. | :44:26. | |
The quarterfinal. It is hard looking at these numbers how he will turn it | :44:27. | :44:33. | |
around, but this is tennis. His serving statistics, 82% on his first | :44:34. | :44:38. | |
serve and 86% on his second and doubled the winners and same and | :44:39. | :44:44. | |
forced errors. The best two sets of tennis I have seen in the | :44:45. | :44:48. | |
championship so far from Djokovic. He said about the appointment of | :44:49. | :44:51. | |
Boris Becker, he is a very different player to me, but I like the way he | :44:52. | :44:57. | |
thinks an big points. That is why Djokovic employed Boris Becker. | :44:58. | :45:13. | |
I would like to know what he said, and how he got through to a champion | :45:14. | :45:19. | |
like Djokovic, who had already made his mark already. | :45:20. | :46:00. | |
Djokovic has made 20 straight quarterfinal appearances at Grand | :46:01. | :46:18. | |
Slam level. I was having a look at the records, Jimmy. Jimmy Connors, | :46:19. | :46:25. | |
27 consecutive quarterfinals. Federer has the record, 36. That was | :46:26. | :46:35. | |
a mistake. The one that you lost? We have all been in a position like | :46:36. | :46:38. | |
this when we have thought we are playing good tennis and down 2-0, | :46:39. | :46:42. | |
you just have to stay in there and keep grinding. | :46:43. | :46:50. | |
That is such a new thing to say. What's that? Just day in there and | :46:51. | :47:02. | |
keep grinding. It is, and if it doesn't work you shake hands and say | :47:03. | :47:03. | |
too good. CHUCKLES | :47:04. | :47:35. | |
That was frightening. Give him a disbelieving look, I just | :47:36. | :48:57. | |
hit five cannons are you in a row, and they have come back twice as | :48:58. | :48:59. | |
fast at my feet. I noticed this against Radek step | :49:00. | :49:51. | |
next the other day, whenever there is a bit of support for the other | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
man, Djokovic, if he does something right, is very quick to invite in | :49:56. | :49:58. | |
appreciation to himself. It looks to me like Tsonga, when he | :49:59. | :50:30. | |
hits the ball, it looks like he is swinging hard at it. Novak, it | :50:31. | :50:35. | |
doesn't, it looks like his racket is timing the ball very smooth. | :50:36. | :51:04. | |
Djokovic giving that one away, tremendous play, great resistance | :51:05. | :52:00. | |
from Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Djokovic very happy to get, that | :52:01. | :52:15. | |
is, as you would expect from a man who has finished two years as the | :52:16. | :52:17. | |
world number one player. Has not won a Grand Slam that 18 months, a long | :52:18. | :52:23. | |
time for him to wait. Had a 25 match winning streak at the beginning of | :52:24. | :52:29. | |
the year, snapped at Melbourne Park. Nadal to tougher French Open on many | :52:30. | :52:35. | |
occasions. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, a great year with the Davis Cup, | :52:36. | :52:38. | |
taking his country to a semifinal. The coaching box talks, Thierry | :52:39. | :52:46. | |
Ascione. His father was the world military boxing champion. Can you | :52:47. | :52:52. | |
imagine anybody harder than that? He had another uncle who was European | :52:53. | :52:56. | |
boxing champion, a tough bunch. Must be from the south. | :52:57. | :53:04. | |
Plans being changed, a late night finish here. The fourth-round | :53:05. | :53:13. | |
encounter we are enjoying. We are wondering whether Tsonga can get | :53:14. | :53:20. | |
involved in this contest. By perhaps picking up a set. | :53:21. | :54:28. | |
Just perfection. First serves, ground strokes, volleys, passing | :54:29. | :54:42. | |
shot, certainly returns. Every facet is working. It was not the case in | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
the first week, Djokovic's game didn't look as well oiled. Any | :54:48. | :54:51. | |
hangover from losing at the French Open is gone. | :54:52. | :54:59. | |
I think it is also the measure of respect he has the Tsonga's game. He | :55:00. | :55:06. | |
knew this was a dangerous match, potentially. His focus and the way | :55:07. | :55:10. | |
he is striking the ball has gone up a level. | :55:11. | :55:26. | |
Missed a return. Even at full stretch. Just did a Pyrah wept after | :55:27. | :55:57. | |
he hung an arm out. After he makes a return, he is back in position ready | :55:58. | :55:59. | |
for the next shot. -- piourette. If you are coaching anywhere in the | :56:00. | :56:16. | |
world and you happen to be listening watching this, get this game out. | :56:17. | :56:21. | |
This is a returning masterclass from the best in the business right now. | :56:22. | :56:23. | |
Wonderful to watch, break points. Making the port so narrow for | :56:24. | :56:44. | |
Tsonga, he is having to go from lines on the ground strokes. | :56:45. | :56:49. | |
Just wondering if it has the right compression, maybe if it is a bit | :56:50. | :58:19. | |
flat, comparing it. Did not like the feel of it off the strings. Maybe | :58:20. | :58:26. | |
just show this to the umpire. How can you miss Carlos? | :58:27. | :58:36. | |
That is high and wide. Just a bit outside. | :58:37. | :59:10. | |
ANDREW CASTLE: Well done, Tsonga! Courage under-fire. | :59:11. | :59:23. | |
There's not many times somebody will return like that against you and you | :59:24. | :59:28. | |
are going to come through the game. That keeps the match alive and we | :59:29. | :59:30. | |
are delighted. That's the scene outside. Wimbledon | :59:31. | :59:40. | |
Common, with the windmill there. There is a nice cafe there and a | :59:41. | :59:47. | |
massive horse! They go patrolling around Wimbledon Common on it. I | :59:48. | :59:51. | |
don't know what its name is, but it is mammoth. Coming back into Centre | :59:52. | :00:00. | |
and Court 1, play going on here. Didn't Tsonga do well, Jimmy | :00:01. | :00:05. | |
Connors? JIMMY CONNORS: It is amazing the | :00:06. | :00:11. | |
shots he has to come up with to stay in a game like that. That's not | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
going to play well with Novak. He was up 15-40, he had an opportunity | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
to break serve and to hold serve and get this match over with. So, it | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
will be interesting to see how he comes out and plays this game after | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
maybe a little bit of a let down. Fairly new relationship, is it? | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
Enjoying the tennis. UMPIRE: Mr Tsonga is challenging the | :00:31. | :02:16. | |
call. Right baseline, it was called good. | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
ANDREW CASTLE: I think he thinks it is probably in, but he will have a | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
check. Caught the line. Worth a look. | :02:25. | :02:49. | |
Here's some excitement for Tsonga. He is getting his motor running here | :02:50. | :03:08. | |
at 30-30. That's the single-handed backhand. | :03:09. | :04:35. | |
He likes hitting it. If he has no time to think about it, he hits it | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
quite well. That was top of the net. Close to earning a break-point. | :04:43. | :05:23. | |
The Frenchman has turned up the heat on his ground strokes. It's knocked | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
Djokovic three or four foot back behind the baseline. | :05:30. | :05:46. | |
UMPIRE: Game, Djokovic. New balls, please. | :05:47. | :06:37. | |
JIMMY CONNORS: That was a good game by Tsonga. Strong returning, good | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
effort. JOHN LLOYD: The previous game when | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
Tsonga hit the net and Djokovic missed it and the crowd clapped, he | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
gave a sarcastic clap at the crowd. His reaction here, he is looking at | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
this section of the crowd, not looking up at his box. It's a | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
message that. I think he found last year's final | :07:03. | :07:26. | |
quite overwhelming. I agree. With the support in here, I have never | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
heard anything like it. Last year's support was overwhelming. | :07:34. | :07:51. | |
CROWD: Come on, Jo. UMPIRE: Mr Tsonga is challenging the | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
call. Mr Tsonga has one challenge | :07:58. | :08:07. | |
remaining. JIMMY CONNORS: He wants to end it | :08:08. | :08:37. | |
here. He doesn't want to crowd to get behind Tsonga. | :08:38. | :09:14. | |
Yes, he is beginning to orchestrate the thousands that are still here in | :09:15. | :09:32. | |
Centre Court. Break-point saved on his previous service game. 0-30 | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
here. Back at 30-30. Come on, give us some more tennis, they are | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
saying! That point didn't last long. Those | :09:42. | :10:46. | |
wearing a Union Jack are supporting the Frenchman! The crowd love it. | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
They want to see more. The quality of tennis has been at a high level | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
from both players and they are in for a long night if they can make it | :10:56. | :11:09. | |
happen. And Djokovic with a little bit of sportsmanship there. An | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
amazing standard of tennis, John? Tsonga is having to play ridiculous | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
points here just to hold his serve and that is the sort of pressure | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
that Djokovic is throwing out at him time after time. These returns are | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
coming back deep into the corner and one break in each set, almost had a | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
break there. I think Tsonga is playing brilliantly and he is two | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
sets to love down, that's the problem. He is happy to go toe to | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
toe with the younger man by a couple of years. He is happy to get under | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
the Serbian's skin. Do you think the crowd are beginning to get under | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
Novak's skin a bit? Just a little bit. This is what they want, Jimmy! | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
That is what they are out there for. They expect that, the fans expect it | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
and they are giving them one heck of a show right now. | :12:11. | :13:02. | |
UMPIRE: Out. Mr Tsonga is challenging the call, right near | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
side line, the ball was called out. He's enjoying himself now. 6ft 2in | :13:10. | :14:18. | |
and 200lb of him looking to get that forehand into play. | :14:19. | :14:37. | |
Still break-point. mind, is it not? | :14:38. | :16:21. | |
Fist pump to the crowd again. How are those two break-points that | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
Djokovic has just played? Tsonga has picked up his game. Novak | :16:29. | :17:20. | |
had better get the crowd out of his mind and get back to business if he | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
wants to end this in three. CYAN CYAN That was -- that was so | :17:23. | :17:31. | |
well placed. That is a big hold and a big roar to | :17:32. | :18:33. | |
go with it! Top seed here and playing like it. | :18:34. | :18:41. | |
He's a tightly coiled spring. It's the second week of Wimbledon. It's | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
when the best players play their best tennis. That is the show we are | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
getting right now from these two. The only thing he is not doing is | :18:53. | :20:07. | |
beating his chest! That was really pumped up from Tsonga. Tremendous | :20:08. | :20:18. | |
stuff. He came in to the senior game with such a pedigree. He was number | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
two in the world. He won the US Open. Injured parties played havoc | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
with his first few years as a professional - shoulder, back, | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
abdominal injuries. He exploded on to the scene, Tsonga, in 2007. He | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
came to Queen's Club and he beat Hewitt. A lot of us hadn't heard of | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
him in the UK. It wasn't a surprise to him that he would beat such a | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
celebrated man on the lawns of Queen's Club. Since then, | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
consistently top ten. His game and his personality, charismatic, he | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
brings more to the court than just the tennis. I happen to like that. | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
It involves the crowd, like you see right now. His tennis is at such a | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
high level now, playing against the number one player in the world and, | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
you know, a little smile here and there doesn't hurt and he's made the | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
crowd a part of this match and they are loving it. | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
Well, we need it back! Thank you. A reminder that we are playing indoors | :21:22. | :23:26. | |
here. No worries about natural light and the sun going down. | :23:27. | :23:35. | |
There's no such thing as a three-quarter shot from Tsonga. He | :23:36. | :23:51. | |
is hitting the cover off every ball when it comes to him. | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
He might just pick up a set, that is something that he hasn't done in two | :23:58. | :24:14. | |
years against Djokovic. They just played at the French Open in front | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
of a passionate French crowd. He got six games. He is throwing the | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
kitchen sink at Djokovic. It is fun to watch. | :24:24. | :25:30. | |
He moved well to get around to hit that forehand. | :25:31. | :26:05. | |
Tsonga leads 6-5. Tsonga, at least, will get a | :26:06. | :26:57. | |
tie-break out of this set. 6-5 to him. | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
SUE BARKER: Thrilling tennis on Centre Court late in the evening. We | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
are staying here on BBC Two right the way through until the conclusion | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
of the match. Look at that, the sunset here this evening. It has not | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
been very good weatherwise, but that is a lovely end to the day and we | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
are enjoying watching this match on Centre Court and Djokovic coming out | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
to stay in this third set. ANDREW CASTLE: A lovely sky, indeed. | :27:22. | :27:34. | |
A bruising encounter in here and a strengthening one. If Djokovic comes | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
through this in straight sets, he has hit his straps, hasn't he? | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
JOHN LLOYD: Tsonga has thrown everything at him. In the first two | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
set, it was beyond belief. Tsonga has had to raise his game to his | :27:49. | :27:57. | |
limits. He is holding form here. It is very quick-fire tennis. Not many | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
rallies going, but the first strike from both players is just awesome. | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
We always look to the Royal Box here. It is going to just die out | :28:08. | :28:20. | |
before it gets there. It is nice and full up there in the best seats. | :28:21. | :28:35. | |
JIMMY CONNORS: Aces are rolling off their rackets. 13 for Djokovic, 16 | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
for Tsonga. UMPIRE: Game, Djokovic. 6-6, third | :28:41. | :29:57. | |
set, tie-break. Both players receive one additional challenge. Strong | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
work at 5-6 from Djokovic. Four straight points and into a tie-break | :30:02. | :30:03. | |
we go. 9.00pm on the second Monday of the | :30:04. | :30:12. | |
Championships. A place in the quarterfinal is at stake. | :30:13. | :30:18. | |
It is tough to figure out what to do when you don't have a chance to make | :30:19. | :31:39. | |
contact! Let's see if Novak steps in and | :31:40. | :31:50. | |
takes a chance on the second serve. This was a nasty surprise. Hold on a | :31:51. | :32:28. | |
second. He rolled the other day, when he fell over against Gilles | :32:29. | :32:32. | |
Simon, when he was in complete control of the match, no problems at | :32:33. | :32:38. | |
all. He rolled over and put his left hand down and clasped at that part | :32:39. | :32:40. | |
of his arm. The first we have seen of it | :32:41. | :32:43. | |
tonight. It can't have been hurting too bad! | :32:44. | :33:05. | |
It is a strange time for it to hurt when somebody gets a net cord | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
against you. Everything hurts more when that happens. | :33:11. | :33:22. | |
Nothing against serve yet. First six points even. | :33:23. | :34:13. | |
Ooh, that is a train down the centre! 133mph. | :34:14. | :34:46. | |
If Tsonga can nick one of these next two points, he will have a set-point | :34:47. | :34:59. | |
on his own serve. That's difficult to do. | :35:00. | :35:15. | |
from where he was. He was smart to take that out of the air instead of | :35:16. | :35:17. | |
letting it bounce. What a serve again. Good serving. | :35:18. | :35:33. | |
Unbelievable. Talk about Hawk-Eye. Becker looking | :35:34. | :35:46. | |
at his man there! It's match-point. Hold on. This has to be a challenge. | :35:47. | :36:21. | |
He's taking the applause. So is Boris. Is Jo-Wilfried not | :36:22. | :36:31. | |
challenging? That's a surprise. Was this in? Or not? Immediately, | :36:32. | :36:38. | |
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga challenged it. UMPIRE: Mr Djokovic is challenging | :36:39. | :36:43. | |
the call right nearside line. The ball was called out. It was called | :36:44. | :36:50. | |
out. It was overruled by the umpire. It was in. It's all over! I think we | :36:51. | :36:59. | |
have just seen one of the greatest returns of all time. | :37:00. | :37:03. | |
UMPIRE: Game, set and match, Djokovic. | :37:04. | :37:17. | |
Wow! What did you say, Jimmy Connors, right before that second | :37:18. | :37:27. | |
serve? I have got memory lapse! Take a chance, step in and rip it! Right. | :37:28. | :37:36. | |
You have to look at the second serve, you have to give it a go. | :37:37. | :37:40. | |
Great from both players. The level of tennis out there, three sets to | :37:41. | :37:44. | |
love for Djokovic, but the level was such high quality. It was great to | :37:45. | :37:46. | |
watch. So, it is quite a late-night finish. | :37:47. | :38:05. | |
Not too bad. 9.08pm. Many would have been delighted to have seen a fourth | :38:06. | :38:09. | |
set there and to see more tennis. It was so entertaining. When he was | :38:10. | :38:16. | |
challenged, Djokovic, he played a perfect game each time. Four | :38:17. | :38:19. | |
straight points to go into the breaker. A perfect breaker. Finished | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
with a backhand return that is unplayable. He's played himself into | :38:24. | :38:31. | |
form over these first four matches. It was majestic, really. He knew | :38:32. | :38:39. | |
that this was the most dangerous match in this section of the draw. | :38:40. | :38:43. | |
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga's level just rose. It had to. It was an | :38:44. | :38:48. | |
outstanding performance. Here we go. Split. Bang! He was pulled out of | :38:49. | :38:54. | |
court there. His flexibility. He is such an elite mover. Of course, he's | :38:55. | :39:03. | |
quite happy. To demonstrate the spirit that has taken him to and | :39:04. | :39:08. | |
Serbia to Davis Cup victory and he's won everything in the game, | :39:09. | :39:11. | |
including Wimbledon. He is going to be a handful into the second week. | :39:12. | :39:20. | |
What didn't we know(?) Whoever wins the next match is going to be 0 and | :39:21. | :39:27. | |
9 against him. He is talking to Phil Jones. | :39:28. | :39:29. | |
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, a tremendous player. You knew you were going to | :39:30. | :39:35. | |
have to take it up a notch and it looked like you did? Especially in | :39:36. | :39:39. | |
the third set, he started to serve very well, very efficient, very | :39:40. | :39:45. | |
strong, so he was very hard to get the return back in play. I saved a | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
couple of break-points from 4-3 in third set, it was important to hang | :39:51. | :39:53. | |
in there, get into the tie-break. The tie-break, we both served well. | :39:54. | :39:57. | |
I got an opportunity on 6-5 second serve, I used it and played a great | :39:58. | :40:02. | |
match. That last point, fantastic return, but what was the discussion | :40:03. | :40:08. | |
at the end, confusion? Yes, I thought the line umpire called it | :40:09. | :40:14. | |
in. He actually did, but there was an overrule, the chair umpire called | :40:15. | :40:17. | |
it out so I challenged then. It was good, luckily for me. Overall, the | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
performance you delivered today, give us your assessment of how good | :40:23. | :40:26. | |
you feel in yourself. You hurt your shoulder the other day. Is that OK? | :40:27. | :40:33. | |
Yes, yes. Feeling good. Had two days off. Could recover a little bit. The | :40:34. | :40:41. | |
first week I had a couple of tough matches, especially against | :40:42. | :40:46. | |
Stepanek. It is helpful to win in straight sets and looking forward to | :40:47. | :40:50. | |
next challenge. How significant is it that you have your match in and | :40:51. | :40:55. | |
you are through to the next round? Yes, my opponent in the next round | :40:56. | :41:00. | |
finished, Cilic, so we are both going to have same conditions. Rest | :41:01. | :41:05. | |
of the guys, especially in the bottom half, there's a lot of | :41:06. | :41:10. | |
matches that were cancelled, but that's London, that's Wimbledon. It | :41:11. | :41:15. | |
is very unpredictable weather. I was scheduled on Centre Court, where we | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
have a roof, and we are looking forward. All the players, we are | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
looking forward to seeing Court 1 have a roof and I am sure it will | :41:24. | :41:27. | |
help with the schedule. One quick word on your next opponent, Marin | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
Cilic. You have a 9 and 0 record against him. Does that count for | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
anything at this point? It plays maybe a little bit in my advantage, | :41:37. | :41:42. | |
mentally. Not significantly. When he started working with Goran, he has | :41:43. | :41:45. | |
improved a lot, especially his improved a lot, especially his | :41:46. | :41:49. | |
serve, which is a weapon on this surface. So, he won against Berdych, | :41:50. | :41:55. | |
against Chardy, straight sets, both matches. Starting to feel really | :41:56. | :41:59. | |
comfortable. Played a couple of years ago. Last year, the finals in | :42:00. | :42:04. | |
Queen's and won a title so he knows how to play on grass and he has | :42:05. | :42:08. | |
nothing to lose. I look forward to a tough one. Well done today. Thank | :42:09. | :42:12. | |
you. SUE BARKER: Tsonga was getting | :42:13. | :42:16. | |
better all the time. The crowd were wanting a fourth set. You can never | :42:17. | :42:20. | |
ever count this man out. He just has the ability to raise his game when | :42:21. | :42:24. | |
it matters. And that is what it meant to him, that shot, before | :42:25. | :42:29. | |
Novak Djokovic coming through a very tricky opponent in Jo-Wilfried | :42:30. | :42:32. | |
Tsonga and producing what must be the shot of the tournament, that | :42:33. | :42:39. | |
final return. Yes! The ultimate competitor, he is the top seed, many | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
people's favourite and you wouldn't count against him with the tennis | :42:44. | :42:46. | |
and the belief that he's shown out on Centre Court today. There we go. | :42:47. | :42:54. | |
Djokovic through to the quarterfinals once again. So, this | :42:55. | :43:01. | |
is the scene here at Wimbledon, the Centre Court has now closed as well | :43:02. | :43:08. | |
and we are staying on BBC2 until 9.30pm, Police Under Pressure will | :43:09. | :43:12. | |
be shown after this programme, so shown at 9.30pm. It wasn't the | :43:13. | :43:19. | |
police under pressure, it was Djokovic under pressure in that | :43:20. | :43:23. | |
third set. You felt that it was beginning to turn, Tim? Very much | :43:24. | :43:28. | |
so. You get scenario like that when you are down two sets to love, as | :43:29. | :43:32. | |
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was, he didn't have much to lose, playing the top | :43:33. | :43:36. | |
seed. But down two sets to love, you felt that he was going to let it all | :43:37. | :43:40. | |
hang out, he was going to go for everything and he did. He started to | :43:41. | :43:44. | |
serve much more consistently and he was probably serving bigger as the | :43:45. | :43:49. | |
match went on. So, when Djokovic was down 3-4 and 15-40, you thought | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
there could be a fourth set coming up. Sign of a great champion. He hit | :43:55. | :43:59. | |
an ace down the middle and then won the next point to get back and hold | :44:00. | :44:02. | |
his serve. Got through to tie-break and they both played well. Talk | :44:03. | :44:08. | |
about coming up with the goods. We were sitting here, we couldn't | :44:09. | :44:12. | |
believe it, could we? Here it is. It is a big second serve as well from | :44:13. | :44:18. | |
Tsonga. And you can see by his reaction at that stage, Djokovic | :44:19. | :44:21. | |
thinks that's done and dusted. As he gets to the umpire's chair, he | :44:22. | :44:27. | |
realises that Tsonga has challenged the call and you can see the angle | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
and the pace that he hits it. Amazingly, it was called out by the | :44:32. | :44:35. | |
umpire, which, again, umpires are only meant to intervene if they | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
think it's a clear mistake. Luckily for him, that is the beauty of | :44:40. | :44:43. | |
Hawk-Eye, he can say hang on a minute, I thought Tsonga was | :44:44. | :44:46. | |
challenging the call, it was Djokovic that challenged and then | :44:47. | :44:50. | |
they can go to the replay and it goes to show that the matches can be | :44:51. | :44:55. | |
decided by such fine margins and on the edge of the line there, if that | :44:56. | :44:59. | |
were a correct, if that was the call that the umpire went with, it is 6-6 | :45:00. | :45:06. | |
but Hawk-Eye intervened. He is looking very good. His 21 -- 21st | :45:07. | :45:17. | |
consecutive Grand Slam quarterfinal. It is not only the consistency of | :45:18. | :45:22. | |
his performance when you look at the players that they are coming up | :45:23. | :45:26. | |
against, the standards get tougher all the time. There is also the | :45:27. | :45:29. | |
physical element that they don't have any niggles or injuries, or | :45:30. | :45:33. | |
something that gets in the way of that performance and then you | :45:34. | :45:38. | |
reflect on Federer made all the semifinals and when he did lose | :45:39. | :45:42. | |
before, he was still in the quarterfinals for 36 Slams or | :45:43. | :45:47. | |
something ridiculous and he's also played 60 consecutive Grand Slams | :45:48. | :45:53. | |
which is just amazing. I think it's testament to their training | :45:54. | :45:57. | |
techniques, how fit they are, how well they recover and Djokovic | :45:58. | :46:01. | |
doesn't look like losing any time soon. Well, I was going to say, how | :46:02. | :46:06. | |
can Cilic hurt him, and can he? You look at their head-to-head. He's | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
played nine, lost nine, Cilic. Djokovic mentioned it, Cilic has got | :46:13. | :46:19. | |
Goran in his corner now. He will need to have a gameplay on how he | :46:20. | :46:26. | |
can put Djokovic under pressure. Well, earlier today, on Centre | :46:27. | :46:31. | |
Court, Andy Murray was in action, a straight-sets victory over Kevin | :46:32. | :46:34. | |
Anderson. It was an impressive victory. | :46:35. | :46:39. | |
MARK PETCHEY: The rain, has for the moment, passed. | :46:40. | :46:59. | |
That brings a smile to Sir Alex's face. | :47:00. | :47:04. | |
UMPIRE: Game, Murray. A double break it duly is. | :47:05. | :47:13. | |
UMPIRE: Ladies and gentlemen, play is suspended. | :47:14. | :47:19. | |
JOHN MCENROE: It is hard not to get down if you are Kevin Anderson. | :47:20. | :47:26. | |
Murray is in control. That is the shot of the tournament | :47:27. | :47:42. | |
so far! He's played far better since the roof has been closed. | :47:43. | :47:51. | |
The seventh successive year he's through to the quarterfinals at | :47:52. | :47:58. | |
Wimbledon. SUE BARKER: It was another victory. | :47:59. | :48:11. | |
Four victories in straight sets. Andy Murray will face Grigor | :48:12. | :48:13. | |
Dimitrov. Let's hear what he had to say after the match. He spoke to | :48:14. | :48:19. | |
Lee. For 51 weeks, you have been the Wimbledon Champion. You have got the | :48:20. | :48:22. | |
trophy. It's getting to that point where it can be yours again. It | :48:23. | :48:26. | |
might go to someone else. Do you feel a sense of ownership that this | :48:27. | :48:29. | |
is mine, I don't want somebody else's hands on it, when you have | :48:30. | :48:34. | |
it, does it feel like it is yours? To be honest, I don't feel like it's | :48:35. | :48:40. | |
something that anyone can take away from me. I think when you finish | :48:41. | :48:45. | |
playing, you look back and you have won Wimbledon. For me, trying to win | :48:46. | :48:50. | |
Wimbledon again, I know what it was like last year and that is enough | :48:51. | :48:53. | |
motivation for me, whether I am defending the tournament or not. If | :48:54. | :49:00. | |
I lose in the next round, or and come back the next year, I will | :49:01. | :49:03. | |
still be as motivated regardless of whether I am defending the | :49:04. | :49:07. | |
tournament. This event means a lot to me. I will try my best to win | :49:08. | :49:11. | |
again. Six days or three matches, does it feel like there is a | :49:12. | :49:16. | |
countdown clock? Or do you, as all athletes say, take it one step at a | :49:17. | :49:20. | |
time? Well, you know there's nine sets, you win nine sets, you win the | :49:21. | :49:24. | |
tournament from now. You need to play each one at a time. Different | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
opponents. Different pressures. Different game styles. So you go out | :49:31. | :49:35. | |
opponents. Different pressures. there and, for me, it will be on | :49:36. | :49:39. | |
Wednesday and I will try to execute a game plan and hopefully play a | :49:40. | :49:44. | |
good match. I will try my best. Thank you very much. Thank you. | :49:45. | :49:49. | |
SUE BARKER: It was a very impressive performance from Andy. Another | :49:50. | :49:53. | |
impressive performance? He has been faultless so far in this tournament. | :49:54. | :49:58. | |
For Anderson coming on to Centre Court, it was a great opportunity, | :49:59. | :50:02. | |
but you felt that Andy's experience would shine through and he did so | :50:03. | :50:06. | |
well to get off to a good start and as the match progressed, it was | :50:07. | :50:11. | |
harder after the rain delay. Andy was up a set and a double break and | :50:12. | :50:15. | |
then if anything, Anderson changed his game. Andy was able to regain | :50:16. | :50:22. | |
the rhythm and again, to get another straight-sets victory is fantastic. | :50:23. | :50:25. | |
It's been a bit tricky with some of the rain delays. He will be | :50:26. | :50:28. | |
delighted to keep his side of the draw moving through. You see him hit | :50:29. | :50:32. | |
shots like this, you think of the shot Djokovic hit on match-point, | :50:33. | :50:38. | |
there are very few players that has the dexterity to hit those shots. | :50:39. | :50:43. | |
You don't know what is coming next. You can't teach it. Oh! He's hit the | :50:44. | :50:54. | |
ball so cleanly from the baseline. He's been flattening out the | :50:55. | :50:58. | |
backhand. You see Anderson coming to the net there on a good approach | :50:59. | :51:02. | |
shot and you don't think there is any way that he is going to lose | :51:03. | :51:06. | |
that point, but Murray is able to find the lines. His defensive skills | :51:07. | :51:12. | |
are so good. Oh! Again, he's got an impressive highlights reel after | :51:13. | :51:16. | |
this match. So, Andy Murray is safely through. Let's show you | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
briefly what happened over on Grigor Dimitrov's court, he was up against | :51:22. | :51:25. | |
Leonardo Mayer. He won the first set. This is what happened at the | :51:26. | :51:33. | |
end of the second set. We join it at 3-3 all and commentary is from Peter | :51:34. | :51:36. | |
Fleming and Andrew Cotter. PETER FLEMING: That will cost you. | :51:37. | :52:02. | |
He needs to be a bit more conservative, perhaps. | :52:03. | :52:21. | |
ANDREW COTTER: Dimitrov's turn to err. In a tie-break, every mistake | :52:22. | :52:36. | |
is exaggerated. That is the sort of rally that you would have thought | :52:37. | :52:40. | |
one of the top guys wouldn't have missed. That is why they are the | :52:41. | :52:44. | |
best, though. That call is good and Dimitrov is | :52:45. | :53:35. | |
not challenging. He absolutely crushed that forehand. | :53:36. | :53:39. | |
UMPIRE: Mr Mayer is challenging the call. An immediate challenge here | :53:40. | :53:57. | |
from Leonardo Mayer. It's either a clean ace or a fault. | :53:58. | :54:03. | |
Not by much. UMPIRE: Second serve. That was to | :54:04. | :54:09. | |
produce a set-point. Oh, great work by Dimitrov. A really | :54:10. | :54:37. | |
deftly hit set-up pass if you will. Attempting to keep the ball low. He | :54:38. | :54:44. | |
did. So, Dimitrov with the serve and with a point for a two-set lead. | :54:45. | :54:58. | |
Was it out? No! The challenge will come from Mayer. | :54:59. | :55:04. | |
UMPIRE: Mr Mayer is challenging the call. He has nothing to lose there. | :55:05. | :55:09. | |
That ball hung in the air for an age. He is sitting down already. He | :55:10. | :55:15. | |
is either back out of his chair, or - get back out of your chair! I | :55:16. | :55:20. | |
thought it looked wide. What do you know? Dimitrov thought I | :55:21. | :55:32. | |
have a two-set lead, this is all grand and Hawk-Eye says otherwise. | :55:33. | :55:37. | |
Worth another look, that one. It was a difficult one. Mayer hit it | :55:38. | :55:49. | |
so well. Dimitrov had to wait for it. No, he didn't quite get it. | :55:50. | :56:03. | |
He will have another set-point. This time - 133mph that serve. It is | :56:04. | :56:13. | |
reasonably cool out there now. Oh dear. Well, Dimitrov has the set. | :56:14. | :56:49. | |
A sad way for Mayer to see it go after fighting and scrapping so hard | :56:50. | :56:57. | |
in the set and in the tie-break. That will do, says Roger Rashid. | :56:58. | :57:03. | |
SUE BARKER: Some tremendous tennis there. From there, it was all Grigor | :57:04. | :57:07. | |
Dimitrov. He dominated the third set, winning it 6-2. That is how he | :57:08. | :57:09. | |
finished it off. So he set, winning it 6-2. That is how he | :57:10. | :57:14. | |
the last eight here for the first time. Such a great talent and such a | :57:15. | :57:19. | |
wonderful summer he's enjoying here on the grass having won at Queen's. | :57:20. | :57:26. | |
So, we are all set up for a quarterfinal, Dimitrov-Murray, it | :57:27. | :57:29. | |
was what we were hoping for? Absolutely. There are sections of | :57:30. | :57:32. | |
the draw that are panning out as people would have hoped. And that | :57:33. | :57:37. | |
was one of the match-ups. He's played fantastic well to win the | :57:38. | :57:41. | |
tournament at Queen's. He will be full of confidence. Murray will know | :57:42. | :57:44. | |
it will be another tough challenge for him. I do see Murray | :57:45. | :57:48. | |
progressing. Such a talented player, Dimitrov? He is. He is the future of | :57:49. | :57:54. | |
the men's game. He is starting to produce these types of results in | :57:55. | :57:58. | |
the biggest events. We will see more of him. We saw how Dimitrov got | :57:59. | :58:03. | |
through, but let's show you other results. There are plenty of results | :58:04. | :58:06. | |
on our BBC website as well. Dimitrov in three sets. Stanislas | :58:07. | :58:17. | |
Wawrinka through in three sets against Denis Istomin. Kei Nishikori | :58:18. | :58:27. | |
finished off his match. He beat Bolelli 6-4 in the fifth set. In the | :58:28. | :58:37. | |
Ladies' Championship, Eugenie Bouchard defeated Alize Cornet. | :58:38. | :58:58. | |
Yaraslava Shvedova got through because Madison Keys had to retire. | :58:59. | :59:05. | |
Barbora Zahlavova Strycova beat Caroline Wozniacki and Lucie | :59:06. | :59:09. | |
Safarova came through against the qualifier. As I said, we are on the | :59:10. | :59:14. | |
air earlier tomorrow at 11.30am on BBC Two. Look at this for the order | :59:15. | :59:21. | |
of play on Centre Court. On Court 1, it is good over there as | :59:22. | :59:33. | |
well. Roger Federer is first on court against Robredo. | :59:34. | :59:35. | |
That is it from us. It's been a very busy day, plenty to look forward to. | :59:36. | :59:43. | |
If you are tuning in for The Culture Show, that will be shown at 10.00pm | :59:44. | :59:45. | |
tomorrow. Bye-bye. | :59:46. | :59:51. |